Invalid source path error while starting managed servers | Weblogic

Facing the below exception and the manage server is not starting up

####<May 12, 2012 1:35:12 AM BST> <Error> <Deployer> <doingok> <manageserver12> <[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '1' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'> <<WLS Kernel>> <> <> <1338078912236>
<BEA-149205> <Failed to initialize the application 'TpStatus' due to error weblogic.management.DeploymentException: Exception occured while downloading files.

weblogic.management.DeploymentException: Exception occured while downloading files

at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.datamanagement.AppDataUpdate.doDownload(AppDataUpdate.java:43)

at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.datamanagement.DataUpdate.download(DataUpdate.java:56)

at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.datamanagement.Data.prepareDataUpdate(Data.java:97)

at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.BasicDeployment.prepareDataUpdate(BasicDeployment.java:683)

at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.BasicDeployment.stageFilesForStatic(BasicDeployment.java:725)

at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.AppDeployment.prepare(AppDeployment.java:104)

at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.DeploymentAdapter$1.doPrepare(DeploymentAdapter.java:40)

at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.DeploymentAdapter.prepare(DeploymentAdapter.java:191)

at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.AppTransition$1.transitionApp(AppTransition.java:22)

at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.ConfiguredDeployments.transitionApps(ConfiguredDeployments.java:240)

at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.ConfiguredDeployments.prepare(ConfiguredDeployments.java:166)

at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.ConfiguredDeployments.deploy(ConfiguredDeployments.java:122)

at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.DeploymentServerService.resume(DeploymentServerService.java:181)

at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.DeploymentServerService.start(DeploymentServerService.java:97)

at weblogic.t3.srvr.SubsystemRequest.run(SubsystemRequest.java:64)

at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:201)

at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:173)

Error cause by(Continued):

Caused By: java.io.IOException: [DeploymentService:290066]Error occurred while downloading files from admin server for deployment request "0".
Underlying error is: "[DeploymentService:290065]Deployment service servlet encountered an Exception while handling the deployment datatransfer message for request id "0" from server "manageserver12".
Exception is: "Invalid source path : /wls_domains/servers/admin_upload/TpStatus.war"."

Rest of exception Continued

at weblogic.deploy.service.datatransferhandlers.HttpDataTransferHandler.getDataAsStream(HttpDataTransferHandler.java:86)

at weblogic.deploy.service.datatransferhandlers.DataHandlerManager$RemoteDataTransferHandler.getDataAsStream(DataHandlerManager.java:153)

at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.datamanagement.AppDataUpdate.doDownload(AppDataUpdate.java:39)

at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.datamanagement.DataUpdate.download(DataUpdate.java:57)

at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.datamanagement.Data.prepareDataUpdate(Data.java:97)

at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.BasicDeployment.prepareDataUpdate(BasicDeployment.java:683)

at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.BasicDeployment.stageFilesForStatic(BasicDeployment.java:725)

at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.AppDeployment.prepare(AppDeployment.java:104)

at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.DeploymentAdapter$1.doPrepare(DeploymentAdapter.java:40)

at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.DeploymentAdapter.prepare(DeploymentAdapter.java:191)

at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.AppTransition$1.transitionApp(AppTransition.java:22)

at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.ConfiguredDeployments.transitionApps(ConfiguredDeployments.java:240)

at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.ConfiguredDeployments.prepare(ConfiguredDeployments.java:166)

at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.ConfiguredDeployments.deploy(ConfiguredDeployments.java:122)

at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.DeploymentServerService.resume(DeploymentServerService.java:181)

at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.DeploymentServerService.start(DeploymentServerService.java:97)

at weblogic.t3.srvr.SubsystemRequest.run(SubsystemRequest.java:64)

at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:201)

at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:173)

We tried below steps to make it work.

1- Stop all your servers

2- Remove the offending entry from the config.xml file, if it is still there. It could be something similar to this:

<app-deployment>
<name>TpStatus</name>
<target>Cluster1</target>
<module-type>ear</module-type>
<source-path>scratch\TpStatus-342557.ear</source-path>
<plan-path>D:\app\user_projects\domains\apps\config\plan\Plan-TpStatus-342557.ear.xml</plan-path>
<security-dd-model>DDOnly</security-dd-model>
<staging-mode>stage</staging-mode>
</app-deployment>

3- Restart all the servers(Clear cache and tmp folders)

4- copy your ear/war from its original location (to avoid the possibility of a trashed file)

5- deploy once again the app in the WLS console (activating the change, and then try to start the application in ACTIVE state)

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