topic Re: Failed to start the server machine. Premature end of file in ArcGIS Enterprise Questions

Failed to start the server machine. Premature end of file

MohammadIshfaq — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 08:45:15 GMT

Greetings everyone,
I am working with ArcGIS Server 10.1 release on Windows 2008 R2. I suddenly started getting an error regarding 'Failed to start the server machine. Premature end of file' if I try to start the server machine inside ArcGIS Management Panel under Sites tab. I tried searching through the forums but nothing resolved this problem.

I also checked solution given at urls 'http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/44128-ArcGIS-Server-10.1-beta-2-on-Windows-7-64-Site-creation-failed' and 'http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/65237-Failed-to-start-server-machine.' but nothing worked.

Any help would be appreciated here. In advance I thank you for your time and support.

Re: Failed to start the server machine. Premature end of file

BubbaHey — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:55:55 GMT

What operating system is this?

Re: Failed to start the server machine. Premature end of file

MohammadIshfaq — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 02:12:16 GMT

It is Windows 2008 R2 64bit.

What operating system is this?

Re: Failed to start the server machine. Premature end of file

BubbaHey — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 13:54:06 GMT

No clue. Try running Configure ArcGIS Server Account and see if that helps.

Re: Failed to start the server machine. Premature end of file

MohammadIshfaq — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 02:56:49 GMT

I tried even configuring this user but it did not help. Eventually, I ended up in reinstalling it and the problem is fixed now.

Thanks for your time and support.

Re: Failed to start the server machine. Premature end of file

ThomasMontefusco — Mon, 05 May 2014 13:55:07 GMT

This error can also occur if the config.xml file is zero bytes. Copy config.xml.bak (if not 0 bytes) to config.xml.

Location: C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Server\geronimo\var\config

Re: Failed to start the server machine. Premature end of file

PF1 — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 00:29:53 GMT

We had a similar/same issue on one of our deployments. I wrote a discussion topic on the ArcGIS for Server forms here that you may find valuable: https://community.esri.com/message/646889-arcgis-for-server-error-failed-to-start-the-server-machine-premature-end-of-file

Re: Failed to start the server machine. Premature end of file

ShadyKamel — Sat, 11 Mar 2017 21:05:10 GMT

Corruption with "server.xml" also cause the same issue so consider it also, you can check at the following path :"C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Server\framework\runtime\tomcat\conf". in case you are in a cluster you can copy it from one of the another cluster machines.

Re: Failed to start the server machine. Premature end of file

MatthewDowning2 — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 20:31:43 GMT

Had this same issue - :"C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Server\framework\runtime\tomcat\conf" was corrupted after some Windows Server 2008R2 patches. Copying from another server site solved the issue.