title: wso2 app server (carbon) startup error
body: <p>I am trying to start up the WSO2 app server and get this error. I have nothing deployed except I set up some data services.  It was working fine and now it gives this error.  I am on Windows 8.1 and running Java 1.7.0_75.  I thought I read somewhere about a setup.conf file being corrupted but can't find that article of this file anymore.  I do have Java 1.8 on my machine but disabled that in windows and also made sure the java_home is set correctly.  Thanks for your help in advance.  </p>
  
  <pre><code>[2015-07-06 10:12:19,672]  INFO {org.wso2.carbon.core.internal.CarbonCoreActivator} -  Starting WSO2 Carbon...
  [2015-07-06 10:12:19,680]  INFO {org.wso2.carbon.core.internal.CarbonCoreActivator} -  Operating System : Windows 8.1 6.3, amd64
  [2015-07-06 10:12:19,680]  INFO {org.wso2.carbon.core.internal.CarbonCoreActivator} -  Java Home        : D:\Java\jdk1.7.0_75\jre
  [2015-07-06 10:12:19,680]  INFO {org.wso2.carbon.core.internal.CarbonCoreActivator} -  Java Version     : 1.7.0_75
  [2015-07-06 10:12:19,680]  INFO {org.wso2.carbon.core.internal.CarbonCoreActivator} -  Java VM          : Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 24.75-b04,Oracle Corporation
  [2015-07-06 10:12:19,680]  INFO {org.wso2.carbon.core.internal.CarbonCoreActivator} -  Carbon Home      : D:/development/wso2as-5.2.1
  [2015-07-06 10:12:19,680]  INFO {org.wso2.carbon.core.internal.CarbonCoreActivator} -  Java Temp Dir    : D:/development/wso2as-5.2.1/tmp
  [2015-07-06 10:12:19,680]  INFO {org.wso2.carbon.core.internal.CarbonCoreActivator} -  User             : Dean, en-US, America/New_York
  [2015-07-06 10:12:19,752]  WARN {org.wso2.carbon.core.bootup.validator.util.ValidationResultPrinter} -  The running OS : Windows 8.1 is not a tested Operating System for running WSO2 Carbon
  [2015-07-06 10:12:19,752]  WARN {org.wso2.carbon.core.bootup.validator.util.ValidationResultPrinter} -  The default keystore (wso2carbon.jks) is currently being used. To maximize security when deploying to a production environment, configure a new keystore with a unique password in the production server profile.
  [2015-07-06 10:12:19,800]  INFO {org.wso2.carbon.databridge.agent.thrift.AgentHolder} -  Agent created !
  [2015-07-06 10:12:19,816]  INFO {org.wso2.carbon.databridge.agent.thrift.internal.AgentDS} -  Successfully deployed Agent Client
  [2015-07-06 10:12:21,048]  INFO {org.wso2.carbon.registry.core.jdbc.EmbeddedRegistryService} -  Configured Registry in 43ms
  [2015-07-06 10:12:21,110]  INFO {org.wso2.carbon.registry.core.internal.RegistryCoreServiceComponent} -  Registry Mode    : READ-WRITE
  [2015-07-06 10:12:21,918]  INFO {org.wso2.carbon.user.core.internal.UserStoreMgtDSComponent} -  Carbon UserStoreMgtDSComponent activated successfully.
  [2015-07-06 10:12:30,565] FATAL {org.wso2.carbon.core.init.CarbonServerManager} -  WSO2 Carbon initialization Failed
  org.apache.axiom.om.OMException: javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException: ParseError at [row,col]:[31,21]
  Message: Invalid byte 1 of 1-byte UTF-8 sequence.
      at org.apache.axiom.om.impl.builder.StAXOMBuilder.next(StAXOMBuilder.java:296)
      at org.apache.axiom.om.impl.llom.OMSerializableImpl.build(OMSerializableImpl.java:78)
      at org.apache.axiom.om.impl.llom.OMElementImpl.build(OMElementImpl.java:722)
      at org.apache.axis2.util.XMLUtils.toOM(XMLUtils.java:595)
      at org.apache.axis2.util.XMLUtils.toOM(XMLUtils.java:575)
      at org.apache.axis2.deployment.DescriptionBuilder.buildOM(DescriptionBuilder.java:97)
      at org.apache.axis2.deployment.AxisConfigBuilder.populateConfig(AxisConfigBuilder.java:91)
      at org.wso2.carbon.core.CarbonAxisConfigurator.populateAxisConfiguration(CarbonAxisConfigurator.java:308)
      at org.wso2.carbon.core.CarbonAxisConfigurator.getAxisConfiguration(CarbonAxisConfigurator.java:188)
      at org.apache.axis2.context.ConfigurationContextFactory.createConfigurationContext(ConfigurationContextFactory.java:64)
      at org.wso2.carbon.core.CarbonConfigurationContextFactory.createNewConfigurationContext(CarbonConfigurationContextFactory.java:65)
      at org.wso2.carbon.core.init.CarbonServerManager.initializeCarbon(CarbonServerManager.java:398)
      at org.wso2.carbon.core.init.CarbonServerManager.start(CarbonServerManager.java:219)
      at org.wso2.carbon.core.internal.CarbonCoreServiceComponent.activate(CarbonCoreServiceComponent.java:77)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
      at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.ds.model.ServiceComponent.activate(ServiceComponent.java:260)
      at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.ds.model.ServiceComponentProp.activate(ServiceComponentProp.java:146)
      at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.ds.model.ServiceComponentProp.build(ServiceComponentProp.java:347)
      at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.ds.InstanceProcess.buildComponent(InstanceProcess.java:620)
      at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.ds.InstanceProcess.buildComponents(InstanceProcess.java:197)
      at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.ds.Resolver.getEligible(Resolver.java:343)
      at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.ds.SCRManager.serviceChanged(SCRManager.java:222)
      at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.serviceregistry.FilteredServiceListener.serviceChanged(FilteredServiceListener.java:107)
      at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleContextImpl.dispatchEvent(BundleContextImpl.java:861)
      at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.eventmgr.EventManager.dispatchEvent(EventManager.java:230)
      at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.eventmgr.ListenerQueue.dispatchEventSynchronous(ListenerQueue.java:148)
      at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.serviceregistry.ServiceRegistry.publishServiceEventPrivileged(ServiceRegistry.java:819)
      at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.serviceregistry.ServiceRegistry.publishServiceEvent(ServiceRegistry.java:771)
      at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.serviceregistry.ServiceRegistrationImpl.register(ServiceRegistrationImpl.java:130)
      at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.serviceregistry.ServiceRegistry.registerService(ServiceRegistry.java:214)
      at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleContextImpl.registerService(BundleContextImpl.java:433)
      at org.eclipse.equinox.http.servlet.internal.Activator.registerHttpService(Activator.java:81)
      at org.eclipse.equinox.http.servlet.internal.Activator.addProxyServlet(Activator.java:60)
      at org.eclipse.equinox.http.servlet.internal.ProxyServlet.init(ProxyServlet.java:40)
      at org.wso2.carbon.tomcat.ext.servlet.DelegationServlet.init(DelegationServlet.java:38)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.initServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1284)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1197)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:1087)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:5229)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5516)
      at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1575)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1565)
      at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262)
      at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
      at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
      at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
  Caused by: javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException: ParseError at [row,col]:[31,21]
  Message: Invalid byte 1 of 1-byte UTF-8 sequence.
      at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLStreamReaderImpl.next(XMLStreamReaderImpl.java:596)
      at org.apache.axiom.util.stax.wrapper.XMLStreamReaderWrapper.next(XMLStreamReaderWrapper.java:225)
      at org.apache.axiom.util.stax.dialect.SJSXPStreamReaderWrapper.next(SJSXPStreamReaderWrapper.java:138)
      at org.apache.axiom.om.impl.builder.StAXOMBuilder.parserNext(StAXOMBuilder.java:681)
      at org.apache.axiom.om.impl.builder.StAXOMBuilder.next(StAXOMBuilder.java:214)
      ... 49 more
  Carbon Server WSO2 Carbon 4.2 based server at localhost is shutting down...
  Carbon Server WSO2 Carbon 4.2 based server at localhost has shutted down...
  </code></pre>