Major Description
If you start the server and Jetty can't bind to it's port, you get a variety of exceptions from Jetty, followed by:
12:04:06,655 WARN [GBeanSingleReference] Exception occured while attempting to fully start: objectName=geronimo.server:J2EEApplication=null,J2EEModule=org/apache/geronimo/
Server,J2EEServer=geronimo,j2eeType=GBean,name=JettyWebConnector
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot transition to running state from failed
at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstanceState.setStateInstance(GBeanInstanceState.java:496)
at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstanceState.attemptFullStart(GBeanInstanceState.java:351)
at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstanceState.start(GBeanInstanceState.java:111)
at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstance.start(GBeanInstance.java:486)
at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanSingleReference.attemptFullStart(GBeanSingleReference.java:154)
at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanSingleReference.targetAdded(GBeanSingleReference.java:127)
at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.AbstractGBeanReference.addTarget(AbstractGBeanReference.java:242)
at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanSingleReference$1.running(GBeanSingleReference.java:163)
at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.BasicLifecycleMonitor.fireRunningEvent(BasicLifecycleMonitor.java:155)
at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.BasicLifecycleMonitor.access$300(BasicLifecycleMonitor.java:38)
at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.BasicLifecycleMonitor$RawLifecycleBroadcaster.fireRunningEvent(BasicLifecycleMonitor.java:231)
at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstanceState.attemptFullStart(GBeanInstanceState.java:352)
at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstanceState.start(GBeanInstanceState.java:111)
at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstanceState.startRecursive(GBeanInstanceState.java:133)
at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstance.startRecursive(GBeanInstance.java:503)
at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.BasicKernel.startRecursiveGBean(BasicKernel.java:207)
at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstanceState.startRecursive(GBeanInstanceState.java:141)
at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstance.startRecursive(GBeanInstance.java:503)
at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.BasicKernel.startRecursiveGBean(BasicKernel.java:207)
at org.apache.geronimo.system.main.Daemon.doStartup(Daemon.java:247)
at org.apache.geronimo.system.main.Daemon.<init>(Daemon.java:81)
at org.apache.geronimo.system.main.Daemon.main(Daemon.java:320)
It's not obvious to me what is happening – it sounds kind of like the service failed to load or start but the kernel goes on and tries to start it again anyway. Perhaps it should notice that the GBean is in the failed state and not try to start it in that case.