Software gateway fails to start post upgrade to 11.1
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Issue/Introduction
Software gateway fails to start after upgrading from 11.0 to 11.1 with the below stack trace.
2026-02-15T06:19:19.875+0000 WARNING 1 com.17tech.server.boot.GatewayMain: Error starting server: Lifecycle error: An invalid Lifecycle transition was attempted ([before_stop]) for component [org.apache.catalina.core.StandardThreadExecutor@68fa0c6f] in state [INITIALIZED]
2026-02-15T06:19:19.875+0000 WARNING 1 STDERR: com.17tech.server.LifecycleException: Lifecycle error: An invalid Lifecycle transition was attempted ([before_stop]) for component [org.apache.catalina.core.StandardThreadExecutor@68fa0c6f] in state [INITIALIZED]
2026-02-15T06:19:19.875+0000 WARNING 1 STDERR: at com.17tech.server.transport.http.HttpTransportModule.b(Unknown Source)
2026-02-15T06:19:19.875+0000 WARNING 1 STDERR: at com.17tech.server.transport.http.HttpTransportModule.doStart(Unknown Source)
2026-02-15T06:19:19.875+0000 WARNING 1 STDERR: at com.17tech.server.LifecycleBean.start(Unknown Source)
2026-02-15T06:19:19.875+0000 WARNING 1 STDERR: at com.17tech.server.BootProcess.start(Unknown Source)
2026-02-15T06:19:19.875+0000 WARNING 1 STDERR: at com.17tech.server.boot.GatewayBoot.f(Unknown Source)
2026-02-15T06:19:19.875+0000 WARNING 1 STDERR: at com.17tech.server.boot.GatewayBoot.start(Unknown Source)
2026-02-15T06:19:19.875+0000 WARNING 1 STDERR: at com.17tech.server.boot.GatewayBoot.runUntilShutdown(Unknown Source)
2026-02-15T06:19:19.875+0000 WARNING 1 STDERR: at com.17tech.server.boot.GatewayMain.main(Unknown Source)
2026-02-15T06:19:19.876+0000 WARNING 1 STDERR: Caused by: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: An invalid Lifecycle transition was attempted ([before_stop]) for component [org.apache.catalina.core.StandardThreadExecutor@68fa0c6f] in state [INITIALIZED]
2026-02-15T06:19:19.876+0000 WARNING 1 STDERR: at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.invalidTransition(LifecycleBase.java:409)
2026-02-15T06:19:19.876+0000 WARNING 1 STDERR: at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.stop(LifecycleBase.java:229)
2026-02-15T06:19:19.876+0000 WARNING 1 STDERR: at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.stopInternal(StandardService.java:521)
2026-02-15T06:19:19.876+0000 WARNING 1 STDERR: at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.stop(LifecycleBase.java:242)
2026-02-15T06:19:19.876+0000 WARNING 1 STDERR: at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.stopInternal(StandardServer.java:973)
2026-02-15T06:19:19.876+0000 WARNING 1 STDERR: at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:163)
2026-02-15T06:19:19.876+0000 WARNING 1 STDERR: at org.apache.catalina.startup.Tomcat.start(Tomcat.java:489)
2026-02-15T06:19:19.876+0000 WARNING 1 STDERR: 8 more
2026-02-15T06:19:19.876+0000 WARNING 1 STDERR: Unable to start the server: Error starting server: Lifecycle error: An invalid Lifecycle transition was attempted ([before_stop]) for component [org.apache.catalina.core.StandardThreadExecutor@68fa0c6f] in state [INITIALIZED]
Environment
API Gateway v11.1
Cause
After debugging and analyzing the logs we found that it was a multi threading issue where the HTTPS was getting initialized twice.
Resolution
Upgrade to API Gateway v11.1.3 .
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