Transactional issues

[pdhaigh]

Hi all,

I'm seeing a sporadic transactional problem in my seam apps.

2007-08-26 10:40:25,474 ERROR [org.jboss.aspects.tx.TxPolicy] IllegalStateException while setting transaction for rollback only
java.lang.IllegalStateException: [com.arjuna.ats.internal.jta.transaction.arjunacore.inactive] [com.arjuna.ats.internal.jta.transaction.arjunacore.inactive] The transaction is not active!
 at com.arjuna.ats.internal.jta.transaction.arjunacore.TransactionImple.setRollbackOnly(TransactionImple.java:344)
 at org.jboss.aspects.tx.TxPolicy.setRollbackOnly(TxPolicy.java:212)
 at org.jboss.ejb3.tx.Ejb3TxPolicy.handleInCallerTx(Ejb3TxPolicy.java:81)
 at org.jboss.aspects.tx.TxPolicy.invokeInCallerTx(TxPolicy.java:130)
 at org.jboss.aspects.tx.TxInterceptor$Supports.invoke(TxInterceptor.java:148)
 at org.jboss.aop.joinpoint.MethodInvocation.invokeNext(MethodInvocation.java:101)
 at org.jboss.aspects.tx.TxPropagationInterceptor.invoke(TxPropagationInterceptor.java:76)
 at org.jboss.aop.joinpoint.MethodInvocation.invokeNext(MethodInvocation.java:101)
 at org.jboss.ejb3.stateful.StatefulInstanceInterceptor.invoke(StatefulInstanceInterceptor.java:83)
 at org.jboss.aop.joinpoint.MethodInvocation.invokeNext(MethodInvocation.java:101)
 at org.jboss.aspects.security.AuthenticationInterceptor.invoke(AuthenticationInterceptor.java:77)
 at org.jboss.ejb3.security.Ejb3AuthenticationInterceptor.invoke(Ejb3AuthenticationInterceptor.java:106)
 at org.jboss.aop.joinpoint.MethodInvocation.invokeNext(MethodInvocation.java:101)
 at org.jboss.ejb3.ENCPropagationInterceptor.invoke(ENCPropagationInterceptor.java:46)
 at org.jboss.aop.joinpoint.MethodInvocation.invokeNext(MethodInvocation.java:101)
 at org.jboss.ejb3.asynchronous.AsynchronousInterceptor.invoke(AsynchronousInterceptor.java:106)
 at org.jboss.aop.joinpoint.MethodInvocation.invokeNext(MethodInvocation.java:101)
 at org.jboss.ejb3.stateful.StatefulContainer.localInvoke(StatefulContainer.java:204)
 at org.jboss.ejb3.stateful.StatefulLocalProxy.invoke(StatefulLocalProxy.java:100)
 at $Proxy526.afterTransactionRollback(Unknown Source)
 at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor13326.invoke(Unknown Source)
 at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
 at org.jboss.seam.util.Reflections.invoke(Reflections.java:21)
 at org.jboss.seam.intercept.RootInvocationContext.proceed(RootInvocationContext.java:31)
 at org.jboss.seam.intercept.ClientSideInterceptor$1.proceed(ClientSideInterceptor.java:76)
 at org.jboss.seam.intercept.RootInterceptor.invoke(RootInterceptor.java:106)
 at org.jboss.seam.intercept.ClientSideInterceptor.invoke(ClientSideInterceptor.java:54)
 at org.javassist.tmp.java.lang.Object_$$_javassist_0.afterTransactionRollback(Object_$$_javassist_0.java)
 at org.jboss.seam.transaction.UTTransaction.rollback(UTTransaction.java:70)
 at org.jboss.seam.jsf.SeamPhaseListener.commitOrRollback(SeamPhaseListener.java:586)
 at org.jboss.seam.jsf.SeamPhaseListener.handleTransactionsAfterPhase(SeamPhaseListener.java:325)

This seems to happen pretty randomly, and is not reliably reproducable - but watching the logs for a while will show regular occurances. Does anyone have any pointers at configuration I might be needing?

This is on Seam 2.0 from CVS and JBossAS 4.2.0.GA

[christian.bauer]

This is typically just another exception that occurs because of an earlier exception. So look further up in your log.

Seam/JSF does not always immediately exit the request processing when an exception occurs in a phase but continues processing other phases. One of the reasons why this happens is that we hope to handle the exception somehow later on with a redirect to an error page.

I'd agree that this needs major improvements.

[pdhaigh]

Hi Christian,

Thanks for the reply.

I've got instances where there is nothing erroneous in the log for up to 40 minutes prior to seeing this.. is that sort of timescale possible?

[christian.bauer]

Well, Seam is doing a rollback:

at org.jboss.seam.transaction.UTTransaction.rollback(UTTransaction.java:70)
at org.jboss.seam.jsf.SeamPhaseListener.commitOrRollback(SeamPhaseListener.java:586)

So there must be a cause.