FNRPE2131090482E - Server is being initialized. Retry the operation

Question

I am using Filnet 5.2.1. I have everything working fine for years.

but suddenly today when trying to connect to process engine from workplace application I am getting the error :

[FNRPE2131090482E]Server is being initialized. Retry the operation.
 The Process Engine server is not yet initialized. The software automatically retries your operation but if the problem persists, try again.
    at filenet.jpe.rpc.appserver.PEEngineServlet.<clinit>(PEEngineServlet.java:512)
    at java.lang.J9VMInternals.initializeImpl(Native Method)
    at <unknown class>.<unknown method>(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.Class.forNameImpl(Native Method)
    at <unknown class>.<unknown method>(Unknown Source)
    at java.beans.Beans.instantiate(Beans.java:189)
    at java.beans.Beans.instantiate(Beans.java:80)
    at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper$1.run(ServletWrapper.java:1486)
    at <unknown class>.<unknown method>(Unknown Source)
    at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.loadServlet(ServletWrapper.java:1475)
    at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.loadOnStartupCheck(ServletWrapper.java:1354)
    at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebApp.doLoadOnStartupActions(WebApp.java:623)
    at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebApp.commonInitializationFinally(WebApp.java:589)
    at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebAppImpl.initialize(WebAppImpl.java:425)
    at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebGroupImpl.addWebApplication(WebGroupImpl.java:88)
    at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.VirtualHostImpl.addWebApplication(VirtualHostImpl.java:169)
    at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.WSWebContainer.addWebApp(WSWebContainer.java:749)
    at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.WSWebContainer.addWebApplication(WSWebContainer.java:634)
    at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.component.WebContainerImpl.install(WebContainerImpl.java:426)
    at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.component.WebContainerImpl.start(WebContainerImpl.java:718)
    at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ApplicationMgrImpl.start(ApplicationMgrImpl.java:1177)
    at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.DeployedApplicationImpl.fireDeployedObjectStart(DeployedApplicationImpl.java:1370)
    at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.DeployedModuleImpl.start(DeployedModuleImpl.java:639)
    at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.DeployedApplicationImpl.start(DeployedApplicationImpl.java:968)
    at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ApplicationMgrImpl.startApplication(ApplicationMgrImpl.java:776)
    at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ApplicationMgrImpl$5.run(ApplicationMgrImpl.java:2195)
    at com.ibm.ws.security.auth.ContextManagerImpl.runAs(ContextManagerImpl.java:5477)
    at com.ibm.ws.security.auth.ContextManagerImpl.runAsSystem(ContextManagerImpl.java:5603)
    at com.ibm.ws.security.core.SecurityContext.runAsSystem(SecurityContext.java:255)
    at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ApplicationMgrImpl.start(ApplicationMgrImpl.java:2200)
    at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.CompositionUnitMgrImpl.start(CompositionUnitMgrImpl.java:435)
    at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.CompositionUnitImpl.start(CompositionUnitImpl.java:123)
    at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.CompositionUnitMgrImpl.start(CompositionUnitMgrImpl.java:378)
    at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.CompositionUnitMgrImpl.access$500(CompositionUnitMgrImpl.java:126)
    at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.CompositionUnitMgrImpl$CUInitializer.run(CompositionUnitMgrImpl.java:984)
    at com.ibm.wsspi.runtime.component.WsComponentImpl$_AsynchInitializer.run(WsComponentImpl.java:502)
    at com.ibm.ws.util.ThreadPool$Worker.run(ThreadPool.java:1865)

Edit

Looking at pesvr_system.log I found the following :

RPCHandler PEServer.init [Error] FNRPE2131090405E Start up PE server failed; Exception: Unexpected exception -- see chained exception 
     
        at filenet.jpe.general.RuntimeServiceException.ThrowUnchecked(RuntimeServiceException.java:93) 
        at filenet.jpe.rpc.http.HTTPListenerThread.init(HTTPListenerThread.java:144) 
        at filenet.jpe.rpc.main.PEServer.execute(PEServer.java:365) 
        at filenet.jpe.rpc.appserver.PEEngineServlet$ServerStartupThread.run(PEEngineServlet.java:120) 
    PEServer.init [Error] Error starting listening on 9092; Exception: 
    Caused by: java.net.BindException: Address already in use: JVM_Bind

2021/02/11 11:35:14.937+0300 RPCHandler 7adf27d9 [Info] PEServer: shutting down...
2021/02/11 11:35:14.937+0300 RPCHandler 7adf27d9 [Info] Component Manager.Shutdown...
2021/02/11 11:35:14.937+0300 RPCHandler 7adf27d9 [Info] PEServer: shutting down worker threads..
2021/02/11 11:35:14.953+0300 RPCHandler 7adf27d9 [Info] PEServer:  Finished shutting down.

Answer 1

Issue was fixed by restoring old backup for filenet GCD database.