Article - CS389130
Server cannot be stopped with an error: wt.util.WTRemoteException: Unable to register server; nested exception is: java.lang.SecurityException: access denied in Windchill PDMLink
Modified: 26-Sep-2025
Applies To
- Windchill PDMLink 11.0 to 12.1
Description
- Unable to start Windchill with errors:
Server Manager log:
2024-11-15 12:54:08,826 WARN [RMI TCP Connection(1)-xxx] wt.manager.ServerLauncher - Starting wt.cache.MasterCacheMonitor
2024-11-15 12:54:09,368 INFO [RMI TCP Connection(3)-xxx] wt.manager.CacheMasterNegotiator - Main stub retrieved: Proxy[ServerManager,RemoteObjectInvocationHandler[UnicastRef2 [liveRef: [endpoint:[<hostname>:5002,wt.boot.WTRMIMasterSocketFactory@1e240](remote),objID:[-19ea88f0:193293c2f1a:-7ffe, -5848005850286280384]]]]]
2024-11-15 12:54:09,394 ERROR [RMI TCP Connection(1)-xxx] wt.cache.server.wt.cache.MasterCacheMonitor - caught cache server call exception java.rmi.RemoteException: Unable to register slave cache; nested exception is:
java.lang.SecurityException: Access denied
at wt.cache.RemoteCacheServer.registerSlaveInternal(RemoteCacheServer.java:244)
at wt.cache.RemoteCacheServer.lambda$registerSlave$0(RemoteCacheServer.java:177)
at wt.cache.RemoteCacheServer.callTimeAndLogRemoteCallableLow(RemoteCacheServer.java:683)
at wt.cache.RemoteCacheServer.callTimeAndLogRemoteCallable(RemoteCacheServer.java:655)
at wt.cache.RemoteCacheServer.registerSlave(RemoteCacheServer.java:177)
at wt.cache.CacheManager.<init>(CacheManager.java:605)
at wt.cache.MasterCacheMonitor.<init>(MasterCacheMonitor.java:97hostname)
Method Server log:
2024-11-15 13:05:27,507 INFO [Servlet engine main] org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet - Initializing Servlet 'MethodServer'
2024-11-15 13:05:28,180 INFO [Servlet engine main] org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet - Completed initialization in 673 ms
2024-11-15 13:05:29,136 FATAL [main] wt.method.server - MethodServerMain abort java.lang.StackOverflowError
at java.base/java.lang.invoke.AbstractValidatingLambdaMetafactory.<init>(AbstractValidatingLambdaMetafactory.java:123)
at java.base/java.lang.invoke.InnerClassLambdaMetafactory.<init>(InnerClassLambdaMetafactory.java:175)
at java.base/java.lang.invoke.LambdaMetafactory.metafactory(LambdaMetafactory.java:336)
at java.base/java.lang.invoke.BootstrapMethodInvoker.invoke(BootstrapMethodInvoker.java:134)
at java.base/java.lang.invoke.CallSite.makeSite(CallSite.java:315)
- Server failed to stop, error: wt.util.WTRemoteException: "Unable to register server; nested exception is: java.lang.SecurityException: access denied":
D:\ptc\Windchill>windchill stop
Exception in thread "main" wt.util.WTRemoteException: Unable to stop server manager; nested exception is:
java.lang.SecurityException: access denied
at wt.manager.ServerManagerImpl.checkAccess(ServerManagerImpl.java:765)
at wt.manager.ServerManagerImpl.stopAllServersInternal(ServerManagerImpl.java:678)
at wt.manager.ServerManagerImpl.stopInternal(ServerManagerImpl.java:656)
at wt.manager.ServerManagerImpl.stop(ServerManagerImpl.java:639)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:566)
at java.rmi/sun.rmi.server.UnicastServerRef.dispatch(UnicastServerRef.java:359)
at java.rmi/sun.rmi.transport.Transport$1.run(Transport.java:200)
at java.rmi/sun.rmi.transport.Transport$1.run(Transport.java:197)
at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.rmi/sun.rmi.transport.Transport.serviceCall(Transport.java:196)
at java.rmi/sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport.handleMessages(TCPTransport.java:562)
at java.rmi/sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run0(TCPTransport.java:796)
at java.rmi/sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.lambda$run$0(TCPTransport.java:677)
at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.rmi/sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run(TCPTransport.java:676)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1128)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:628)
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:829)
at java.rmi/sun.rmi.transport.StreamRemoteCall.exceptionReceivedFromServer(Stream)
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