2013-06-07 23:08:56,061 WARN [com.arjuna.ats.arjuna. logging.arjLoggerI18N] [com.arjuna.ats.arjuna. coordinator.BasicAction_40] - Abort called on already aborted atomic action a27650c:c839:51b29dee:1ee
2013-06-07 23:08:56,062 ERROR [org.jboss.ejb.plugins. LogInterceptor] RuntimeException in method: public abstract java.lang.Object com.adobe.idp.dsc.transaction. impl.ejb.adapter. EjbTransactionBMTAdapterLocal. doRequiresNew(com.adobe.idp. dsc.transaction. TransactionDefinition,com. adobe.idp.dsc.transaction. TransactionCallback) throws com.adobe.idp.dsc. DSCException:
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. commitAndDisassociate( TransactionImple.java:1372)
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2013-06-07 23:08:56,069 WARN [com.adobe.idp.dsc.startup. DSCStartupServlet] Unable to start the DSCManager
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. commitAndDisassociate( TransactionImple.java:1372)
Upon further investigation, the transaction timeout simply wasn't long enough and this process was timing out, which caused many other issues with the server. We then found http://helpx.adobe.com/livecycle/kb/unable-start-dscmanager.html and changed the TransactionTimeout in conf/jboss-service.xml to 600.