IM Failed To Start - WFLYDS0011: The deployment scanner found a directory named META-INF that was not inside a directory whose name ends with .ear, .jar, .rar, .sar or .war.

Products

• CA Identity Manager
• CA Identity Suite

Issue/Introduction

JBoss fails to start properly and deploy IM and the JBoss server log shows the following error:

ERROR [org.jboss.as.server.deployment.scanner] (DeploymentScanner-threads - 1) WFLYDS0011: The deployment scanner found a directory named META-INF that was not inside a directory whose name ends with .ear, .jar, .rar, .sar or .war. This is likely the result of unzipping an archive directly inside the <JBOSS_HOME>\standalone\deployments directory, which is a user error. The META-INF directory will not be scanned for deployments, but it is possible that the scanner may find other files from the unzipped archive and attempt to deploy them, leading to errors.

Environment

All Identity Manager

Cause

Looking in the <JBOSS_HOME>\standalone\deployments folder there are backups such as "iam_im.ear - backup" which is causing a conflict.
You should not be keeping backup jars/classes/files within the JBoss folders.

Resolution

1. Stop JBoss

2. Delete or move any backup folders or files within the JBoss standalone\deployments\ folder such as "iam_im.ear - backup" 

3. Rename the marker files (.failed) so you only have castylesr5.1.1.ear.dodeploy and iam_im.ear.dodeploy in the JBoss standalone\deployments folder

4. Delete the contents inside the JBoss \standalone\tmp\ folder and \standalone\log\ folder

5. Start JBoss