KB-1060 Login page does not load properly with a "68 services are lazy, passive or on-demand" log line printed in the JBoss server.log

Symptoms

JBoss does not deploy Appian correctly after making changes to configuration files on a failed deployment and the following message in displayed in the console:

INFO  [org.jboss.as] (Controller Boot Thread) JBAS015874: JBoss EAP 6.4.0.GA (AS 7.5.0.Final-redhat-21) started in 8455ms - Started 217 of 254 services (68 services are lazy, passive or on-demand)

Cause

There are two likely causes for this behaviour:

• The suite.ear.dodeploy marker file is missing in the <APPIAN_HOME>/eardirectory. The marker file is necessary to instruct JBoss to deploy the suite.ear application. Since the suite.ear does not attempt to deploy, JBoss starts with only around 200 services total.
• The Appian EAR is not listed in the JBoss' deployment scanner path.

Action

To resolve this issue, perform one of the following:

• Make any planned configuration changes in the repository.
• Ensure that this line is present in the deployment-scanner subsection of standalone.xml:
  

  <deployment-scanner name="appian" path="${appian.home.ear}" scan-interval="5000" auto-deploy-zipped="false" auto-deploy-exploded="false" auto-deploy-xml="false" deployment-timeout="3600"/>
  

• Deploy the configurations using the Configure Script.
  Note: This approach will deploy the suite.ear.dodeploy marker file. Note that this fix is only applicable to Appian 7.9 and later. Refer to Configure Script for more information.
• Rename the suite.ear.failed/suite.ear.undeployed file located in <APPIAN_HOME>/ear, if it exists, to suite.ear.dodeploy.
  Note: If a deployment failed before, search in the <JBOSS_HOME>/standalone/deployments directory for a .failed or .undeployed file. If such a file exists, delete it before attempting to deploy again.

Affected Versions

This article applies to all versions of Appian using JBoss EAP as an application server.