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Published Jul. 2, 2025

License files containing '-ext' will result in error

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Brian Suh

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Issue

  • When deploying a license XML file which contains the string '-ext', an error will appear showing the following:
    12:28:30,346 INFO [com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployScanner][BaseDeployer:863] Deploying license-portalproduction-extension-6.2ee-test.xml
     Expanding: /home/user1/liferay/bundles/licensetest/liferay-portal-6.2-ee-sp9/deploy/license-portalproduction-extension-6.2ee-test.xml into /home/user1/liferay/bundles/licensetest/liferay-portal-6.2-ee-sp9/tomcat-7.0.42/temp/20150318122830347
    12:28:30,376 ERROR [com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployScanner][AutoDeployDir:220] com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployException: Error while expanding /home/user1/liferay/bundles/licensetest/liferay-portal-6.2-ee-sp9/deploy/license-portalproduction-extension-6.2ee-test.xml_java.io.IOException: Negative seek offset 
    com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployException: Error while expanding /home/user1/liferay/bundles/licensetest/liferay-portal-6.2-ee-sp9/deploy/license-portalproduction-extension-6.2ee-test.xml_java.io.IOException: Negative seek offset 
     at com.liferay.portal.tools.deploy.BaseDeployer.autoDeploy(BaseDeployer.java:216)
     at com.liferay.portal.deploy.auto.ThreadSafeAutoDeployer.autoDeploy(ThreadSafeAutoDeployer.java:36)
     at com.liferay.portal.deploy.auto.ExtAutoDeployListener.deploy(ExtAutoDeployListener.java:54)
     at com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployDir.deploy(AutoDeployDir.java:50)
     at com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployDir.processFile(AutoDeployDir.java:211)
     at com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployDir.scanDirectory(AutoDeployDir.java:275)
     at com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployScanner.run(AutoDeployScanner.java:58)
    Caused by: Error while expanding /home/user1/liferay/bundles/licensetest/liferay-portal-6.2-ee-sp9/deploy/license-portalproduction-extension-6.2ee-test.xml_java.io.IOException: Negative seek offset 
     at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Expand.expandFile(Expand.java:192)
     at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Expand.execute(Expand.java:132)
     at com.liferay.util.ant.ExpandTask.expand(ExpandTask.java:33)
     at com.liferay.portal.tools.deploy.BaseDeployer.deployFile(BaseDeployer.java:1062)
     at com.liferay.portal.tools.deploy.BaseDeployer.deployFile(BaseDeployer.java:996)
     at com.liferay.portal.tools.deploy.BaseDeployer.autoDeploy(BaseDeployer.java:213)
     ... 6 more
    Caused by: java.io.IOException: Negative seek offset
     at java.io.RandomAccessFile.seek(Native Method)
     at org.apache.tools.zip.ZipFile.positionAtCentralDirectory(ZipFile.java:467)
     at org.apache.tools.zip.ZipFile.populateFromCentralDirectory(ZipFile.java:313)
     at org.apache.tools.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:185)
     at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Expand.expandFile(Expand.java:170)
     ... 11 more
    12:28:30,377 INFO [com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployScanner][AutoDeployDir:224] Add license-portalproduction-extension-6.2ee-test.xml to the blacklist
  • This also applies to any license files that include any additional characters that follow -ext, for example, -extension, -external, -ext1, -extra, and so on.

Environment

  • Liferay Portal 6.1, Liferay Portal 6.2

Resolution

  • Files containing the string '-ext' will be processed with the ext hotdeployer instead of the license deployer.

    Please change the license filename to remove the string containing "-ext" and redeploy the license file.

 

 

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