Registry not starting - Our audit file is either missing or we are not a model archive or are corrupt.

Products

• CA Application Test
• Service Virtualization

Issue/Introduction

When trying to restart the Registry, registry is not starting and throwing the below errors.

2018-06-08 06:45:02,656Z (15:45) [Thread-12] INFO  com.itko.lisa.coordinator.EmbeddedWebServer - The max threads in Server Connector thread pool is 100
2018-06-08 06:45:02,718Z (15:45) [main] ERROR com.itko.lisa.coordinator.TestRegistryImpl - Error occurred creating Scheduler: Our audit file is either missing or we are not a model archive or are corrupt.
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Our audit file is either missing or we are not a model archive or are corrupt.
    at com.itko.lisa.model.mar.ModelArchive.init(ModelArchive.java:257)
    at com.itko.lisa.model.mar.ModelArchive.<init>(ModelArchive.java:229)
    at com.itko.lisa.coordinator.CVSMonitor.getModelArchive(CVSMonitor.java:143)
    at com.itko.lisa.coordinator.CVSMonitor.setArchiveFile(CVSMonitor.java:165)
    at com.itko.lisa.coordinator.CVSMonitor.<init>(CVSMonitor.java:63)
    at com.itko.lisa.coordinator.CVSCatalog.storeNewMonitor(CVSCatalog.java:234)
    at com.itko.lisa.coordinator.CVSCatalog.syncFileList(CVSCatalog.java:212)
    at com.itko.lisa.coordinator.CVSCatalog.<init>(CVSCatalog.java:196)
    at com.itko.lisa.coordinator.ScheduleManager.<init>(ScheduleManager.java:124)
    at com.itko.lisa.coordinator.TestRegistryImpl.initScheduler(TestRegistryImpl.java:2118)
    at com.itko.lisa.coordinator.TestRegistryImpl.main(TestRegistryImpl.java:2462)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at com.exe4j.runtime.LauncherEngine.launch(Unknown Source)
    at com.exe4j.runtime.WinLauncher.main(Unknown Source)
    at com.install4j.runtime.launcher.WinLauncher.main(Unknown Source)

Environment

All supported DevTest releases.

Cause

Corrupted MAR files in the cvsMonitors folder may cause this error. 

Resolution

To solve the problem, stop the Registry and select one of these

1. Delete the corrupted MAR files under DevTest_Home/cvsMonitors folder (Corrupted MAR files can be identified by the size which is usually zero bytes)
2. Rename DevTest_Home/cvsMonitors folder and create empty DevTest_Home/cvsMonitors folder

Start the Registry.

Additional Information

Check if there is sufficient disk space available for the DevTest installation.