[JBoss] Wildfly throws UnsupportedOperationException (Naming context is read-only) on start

We're setting up a new staging server (running Ubuntu), and are encountering errors when starting WildFly. The main one seens to be

java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: WFLYNAM0043: Naming context is read-only


which then causes many errors about missing dependencies.

We have set up our (liquibase) database on another server, which we can ssh into internally. We've scoured StackOverflow as well, and attempted to add

set "JAVA_OPTS=%JAVA_OPTS% -Dcom.sun.jersey.server.impl.cdi.lookupExtensionInBeanManager=**true**"


to our standalone.conf, standalone.bat, and standalone.conf.bat (for the sake of having tried everything!). We also saw that this should've been fixed in WildFly 7.1.1, we're running 9 ourselves (to emulate the live server). We tried manually installing the dependencies but there are so many - and honestly we think that's just not the main issue.

We're also running nginx and Redis, we saw in the server.log (see below) that the error happens after "Started Hibernate Redis cache" but the error itself seems to be specific to WildFly.

A chunk of server.log is below:

2019-04-03 10:52:38,252 INFO [com.company.ejb.util.config.ConfigRetriever] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 56) Successfully found and read the config file at /opt/wildfly/config.yml
2019-04-03 10:52:38,300 INFO [com.company.ejb.entity.cache.RedisRegionFactory] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 56) Started Hibernate Redis cache
2019-04-03 10:52:46,896 INFO [org.jboss.weld.Event] (MSC service thread 1-2) WELD-000411: Observer method [BackedAnnotatedMethod] com.sun.jersey.server.impl.cdi.CDIExtension.processAnnotatedType(@Observes ProcessAnnotatedType<Object>) receives events for all annotated types. Consider restricting events using @WithAnnotations or a generic type with bounds.
2019-04-03 10:52:47,041 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-2) MSC000001: Failed to start service jboss.deployment.unit."DoThePublish.ear".WeldStartService: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit."DoThePublish.ear".WeldStartService: Failed to start service
at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1904)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Caused by: org.jboss.weld.exceptions.DefinitionException: Exception List with 1 exceptions:
Exception 0 :
java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: WFLYNAM0043: Naming context is read-only
at org.jboss.as.naming.WritableServiceBasedNamingStore.requireOwner(WritableServiceBasedNamingStore.java:161)
at org.jboss.as.naming.WritableServiceBasedNamingStore.createSubcontext(WritableServiceBasedNamingStore.java:151)
at org.jboss.as.naming.NamingContext.createSubcontext(NamingContext.java:417)
at org.jboss.as.naming.InitialContext$DefaultInitialContext.createSubcontext(InitialContext.java:298)
at org.jboss.as.naming.NamingContext.createSubcontext(NamingContext.java:425)
[...]

2019-04-03 10:52:47,078 ERROR [org.jboss.as.controller.management-operation] (Controller Boot Thread) WFLYCTL0013: Operation ("deploy") failed - address: ([("deployment" => "DoThePublish.ear")]) - failure description: {"WFLYCTL0080: Failed services" => {"jboss.deployment.unit.\"DoThePublish. ear\".WeldStartService" => "org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit.\"DoThePublish.ear\".WeldStartService: Failed to
start service
Caused by: org.jboss.weld.exceptions.DefinitionException: Exception List with 1 exceptions:
Exception 0 :
java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: WFLYNAM0043: Naming context is read-only
at org.jboss.as.naming.WritableServiceBasedNamingStore.requireOwner(WritableServiceBasedNamingStore.java:161)
at org.jboss.as.naming.WritableServiceBasedNamingStore.createSubcontext(WritableServiceBasedNamingStore.java:151)
at org.jboss.as.naming.NamingContext.createSubcontext(NamingContext.java:417)
at org.jboss.as.naming.InitialContext$DefaultInitialContext.createSubcontext(InitialContext.java:298)
at org.jboss.as.naming.NamingContext.createSubcontext(NamingContext.java:425)
[...]
"}}
2019-04-03 10:52:47,178 INFO [org.jboss.as.server] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 32) WFLYSRV0010: Deployed "DoThePublish.ear" (runtime-name : "DoThePublish.ear")
2019-04-03 10:52:47,186 INFO [org.jboss.as.controller] (Controller Boot Thread) WFLYCTL0183: Service status report
WFLYCTL0186: Services which failed to start: service jboss.deployment.unit."DoThePublish.ear".WeldStartService: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit."DoThePublish.ear".WeldStartService: Failed to start service

2019-04-03 10:52:47,581 INFO [org.jboss.as] (Controller Boot Thread) WFLYSRV0060: Http management interface listening on http://127.0.0.1:9990/management
2019-04-03 10:52:47,582 INFO [org.jboss.as] (Controller Boot Thread) WFLYSRV0051: Admin console listening on http://127.0.0.1:9990
2019-04-03 10:52:47,582 ERROR [org.jboss.as] (Controller Boot Thread) WFLYSRV0026: WildFly Full 9.0.1.Final (WildFly Core 1.0.1.Final) started (with errors) in 42472ms - Started 4599 of 5108 services (362 services failed or missing dependencies, 209 services are lazy, passive or on-demand)


Then following that there's a bunch of missing dependencies (there's looaaaads of these):

WFLYCTL0184: New missing/unsatisfied dependencies:
service jboss.deployment.subunit."DoThePublish.ear"."CoreEjb.jar".component.AbstractEntityMainSB.CREATE (missing) dependents: [service jboss.deployment.subunit."DoThePublish.ear"."CoreEjb.jar".component.AbstractEntityMainSB.START]
service jboss.deployment.subunit."DoThePublish.ear"."CoreEjb.jar".component.AbstractEntityMainSB.START (missing) dependents: [service jboss.deployment.subunit."DoThePublish.ear"."CoreEjb.jar".moduleDeploymentRuntimeInformationStart, service jboss.deployment.subunit."DoThePublish.ear"."CoreEjb.jar".deploymentCompleteService]
service jboss.deployment.subunit."DoThePublish.ear"."CoreEjb.jar".component.AbstractEntityMainSB.VIEW."com.company.ejb.session.AbstractEntityMainSBL".LOCAL (missing) dependents: [service jboss.deployment.subunit."DoThePublish.ear"."CoreEjb.jar".component.AbstractEntityMainSB.START]


We've tried comparing the setup to the existing production (live) server, but there has been a big turnaround in the dev team so no-one knows exactly how they're set up. There are no setup instructions so we're trying things as we go along - perhaps the previous server encountered these same issues but we've no idea.

We are wanting to fix this exception to hopefully be able to start wildfly (and thus our website) without issues (or at least move on to the next error...) Any help is greatly appreciated!

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