Can you help me with this error? I am trying to upgrade appian from 7.7 to 16.1.

...=3600000 -Dsun.rmi.dgc.server.gcInterval=3600000 -XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -Dorg.apache.catalina.connector.URI_ENCODING=UTF-8 -Duser.timezone=GMT -Djava.awt.headless=true -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -server -Dappian.home.ear=/uat/appian/ear -Djboss.as.management.blocking.timeout=3600 -Dorg.jboss.resolver.warning=true -Djboss.server.default.config=standalone.xml

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16:13:09,658 INFO [org.jboss.modules] (main) JBoss Modules version 1.3.6.Final-redhat-1
16:13:09,863 INFO [org.jboss.msc] (main) JBoss MSC version 1.1.5.Final-redhat-1
16:13:09,949 INFO [org.jboss.as] (MSC service thread 1-6) JBAS015899: JBoss EAP 6.3.0.GA (AS 7.4.0.Final-redhat-19) starting
16:13:10,456 ERROR [org.jboss.as.server] (Controller Boot Thread) JBAS015956: Caught exception during boot: org.jboss.as.controller.persistence.ConfigurationPersistenceException: JBAS014676:...

... Failed to parse configuration
at org.jboss.as.controller.persistence.XmlConfigurationPersister.load(XmlConfigurationPersister.java:141) [jboss-as-controller-7.4.0.Final-redhat-19.jar:7.4.0.Final-redhat-19]
at org.jboss.as.server.ServerService.boot(ServerService.java:321) [jboss-as-server-7.4.0.Final-redhat-19.jar:7.4.0.Final-redhat-19]
at org.jboss.as.controller.AbstractControllerService$1.run(AbstractControllerService.java:254) [jboss-as-controller-7.4.0.Final-redhat-19.jar:7.4.0.Final-redhat-19]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) [rt.jar:1.8.0_74]
Caused by: javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException: ParseError at [row,col]:[3,1]
Message: Unexpected element '{urn:jboss:domain:1.7}server'
at org.jboss.staxmapper.XMLMapperImpl.processNested(XMLMapperImpl.java:108) [staxmapper-1.1.0.Final-redhat-2.jar:1.1.0.Final-redhat-2]
at org.jboss.staxmapper.XMLMapperImpl.parseDocument(XMLMapperImpl.java:69) [staxmapper-1.1.0.Fina...

... l-redhat-2.jar:1.1.0.Final-redhat-2]
at org.jboss.as.controller.persistence.XmlConfigurationPersister.load(XmlConfigurationPersister.java:133) [jboss-as-controller-7.4.0.Final-redhat-19.jar:7.4.0.Final-redhat-19]
... 3 more

16:13:10,459 FATAL [org.jboss.as.server] (Controller Boot Thread) JBAS015957: Server boot has failed in an unrecoverable manner; exiting. See previous messages for details.
16:13:10,479 INFO [org.jboss.as] (MSC service thread 1-24) JBAS015950: JBoss EAP 6.3.0.GA (AS 7.4.0.Final-redhat-19) stopped in 9ms
[root@testegate bin]#

Here's the key piece:

Caused by: javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException: ParseError at [row,col]:[3,1]
Message: Unexpected element '{urn:jboss:domain:1.7}server'

Check your standalone.xml file, go to the 3rd line, and the first column/character is where it is throwing this exception message of unexpected element.

My 3rd line looks like this:

<server xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:1.7">

Are you missing the '<' opening character or something?

Than sean, but the 1st char in 3rd line is < which is the beginning of <server xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:1.7"> same as you see above. Attached is the standalone.xml, very weird. And do you happen to know what these two extra new files are? standalone-ha.xml and standalone-full.xml?

standalone.xml

Thanks*

I'm wondering if standalone.sh is set to look in a different directory or something, and is picking up an older standalone.xml file or something. The error is complaining about this line:

Unexpected element '{urn:jboss:domain:1.7}server'

So, in some standalone.xml file somewhere it's looking to deploy, and the line starts with that open curly brace '{' in the 3rd line followed by the rest of the details output in the message:

{urn:jboss:domain:1.7}server

That's what it appears to be from what I can tell from the snippets you provided.

What else can i provide to get more help? The standalone.xml has nothing ewird around the 3rd line which has "urn:jboss:domain:1.7". And whats with the message that says "jboss 6.3"! I am using jboss 6.4 :/ Where can i check which folders is the standalone.xml trying to get/use?

Renaming standalone.xml to standalone.xml.orig to see if i get a different message changes nothing. I still get the exact same post!

Actually no, i did add directoy not found. which means its reading the correct standalone.xml, any thoughts?