From my understanding the issue will be present with any exception thrown - that is it's not specific to incorrect files.

From the issue it's not clear if this should affect Groovy 1.7.2. Are we building and running with 1.7.2?

Admin shell throws an IncompatibleClassChangeError -------------------------------------------------- Key: TEIID-3204 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/TEIID-3204 Project: Teiid Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 8.7.1 Environment: OS: fedora 20 arch: x86_64 java: oracle 1.7 Reporter: Juraj Duráni Assignee: Van Halbert Admin shell throws an IncompatibleClassChangeError when wrong path to groovy script is provided along with load command. Actual result: ===> [import static org.teiid.adminshell.AdminShell.*; import static org.teiid.adminshell.GroovySqlExtensions.*; import org.teiid.adminapi.*;] FATAL: java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError: the number of constructors during runtime and compile time for java.lang.Exception do not match. Expected 4 but got 5 java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError: the number of constructors during runtime and compile time for java.lang.Exception do not match. Expected 4 but got 5 at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.selectConstructorAndTransformArguments(MetaClassImpl.java:1406) at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.ScriptBytecodeAdapter.selectConstructorAndTransformArguments(ScriptBytecodeAdapter.java:237) at org.codehaus.groovy.tools.shell.CommandException.<init>(Command.groovy:60) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:526) .... ....