Article - CS305853

ThingWorx fails to start with "Flexara threw exception when checking for previously acquired license: Storage anchor break found"

Modified: 02-Aug-2021   


Applies To

  • ThingWorx Platform 8.1 to 8.4

Description

  • Server is not able to download the Thingworx License
  • LicensingConnectionSettings in \ThingworxPlatform\platform-settings.json have not changed and were previously working
  • Upon startup, following errors appear in \ThingworxStorage\logs\ApplicationLog.log:
[L: ERROR] [O: c.t.s.s.l.LicenseFetcher] [I: ] [U: SuperUser] [S: ] [T: localhost-startStop-1] Unable to process capability response because Storage anchor break found.
[L: ERROR] [O: c.t.s.s.l.LicensingStateMachine] [I: ] [U: SuperUser] [S: ] [T: localhost-startStop-1] Unable to fetch license file with device id e9c9a23c-1905-4d11-ab0f-c49fcd1635fc
[L: ERROR] [O: c.t.s.s.l.LicenseFetcher] [I: ] [U: SuperUser] [S: ] [T: localhost-startStop-1] Flexara threw exception when checking for previously acquired license: Storage anchor break found.
[L: ERROR] [O: c.t.s.s.l.LicensingStateMachine] [I: ] [U: SuperUser] [S: ] [T: localhost-startStop-1] Unable to connect to the PTC license server.  Please make sure the LicensingConnectionSettings settings in the platform-settings.json in the ThingworxPlatform directory are correct. If your server is not connected to the internet please use the request file licenseRequestFile.txt created in the ThingworxPlatform
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