java bridge server issue

[dlovett]

We are having issues with the Java Bridge Server. We are running splunk 4.3.4 as a search head in a windows VM. The server got restarted and the Java Bridge Server has not been able to come up.The following is continuously written out to dbx.log:

2013-05-17 16:05:49.544 main:INFO:Splunkd - Initialized Splunkd REST service service=127.0.0.1:8089 sessionKey=83143deb1f384a402ea7a4d009c5c62e 2013-05-17 16:05:49.544 main:DEBUG:PersistentValueStoreFactory
- Default type xstream 2013-05-17 16:05:49.544 main:DEBUG:PersistentValueStoreFactory
- Adding type=jdbm class=com.splunk.persistence.impl.JdbmStore 2013-05-17 16:05:49.544 main:DEBUG:PersistentValueStoreFactory
- Adding type=xstream class=com.splunk.persistence.impl.XStreamStore 2013-05-17 16:05:49.559 main:DEBUG:XStreamStore - Initialized XStreamStore at E:\Program Files\Splunk\var\lib\splunk\persistentstorage\dbx\global\state.xml 2013-05-17 16:05:49.653 main:DEBUG:XStreamStore - Loading state from XML file...

jbridge.log has this error:

4:23:24.805 PM  
2013-05-17 16:23:24,805 DEBUG Error waiting for process: Java process returned error code 1! Error: Initializing Splunk context... Environment: SplunkEnvironment{SPLUNK_HOME=E:\Program Files\Splunk,SPLUNK_DB=E:\Program Files\Splunk\var\lib\splunk} Configuring Log4j... [Fatal Error] :1:1: Premature end of file. 

[82padarthi]

If this error appears in the jbridge.log file, you might have a corrupted persistent store file

To resolve this issue, remove $SPLUNK_DB/persistentstorage/dbx/global, recursively.

then restart the splunk .. it will resolve the issues

[dlovett · Accepted solution]

We ended up uninstalling and reinstalling dbx.