You are currently reviewing an older revision of this page.

DRAFT KB-XXXX Log4j warnings logged as errors on application server startup

Symptoms

The following errors are printed on JBoss startup:

ERROR [stderr] (MSC service thread 1-1) log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.apache.commons.configuration.PropertiesConfiguration).
ERROR [stderr] (MSC service thread 1-1) log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
ERROR [stderr] (MSC service thread 1-1) log4j:WARN See http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/faq.html#noconfig for more info.

Cause

The above warnings are printed as a result of an issue with a specific logger, org.apache.commons.PropertiesConfiguration, in JBoss. A request to suppress these errors has been logged to the Appian product team as AN-89706.

Action

This issue does not negatively impact Appian, nor does it prevent JBoss from starting successfully. These errors can be safely ignored.

Affected Versions

This article applies to all versions of Appian.

Last Reviewed: March 2018