LCS is reporting Unable to validate the environment token file

Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM).

Issue

• In a Liferay PaaS environment, the Liferay service is printing the following error:
  
  ERROR [LCS Worker 3][LCSClusterEntryTokenCheckTask:85] Unable to validate the environment token file

Environment

• Liferay DXP 7.2 service in a Liferay PaaS environment

Resolution

• As Liferay Connected Services (LCS) has been deprecated for some time, this may be an indication that the environment that is in use is using an older patch version.
• If you are unable to update to our more recent Fix Packs or Updates, you will need to remove the following files from ${LIFERAY_HOME}/osgi/marketplace (${LIFERAY_HOME} corresponds with /opt/liferay) which is located in the Liferay service:
  - Liferay Connected Services Client - Impl.lpkg
  - Liferay Connected Services Client - API.lpkg
  
  Manual deletions will not work as the files are included in the Liferay image itself. As an alternative, you can create a shell script that is executed upon startup as follows:
  
  

  #!/bin/sh
  
  echo "Deleting LCS..."
  rm -rvf ${LIFERAY_HOME}/osgi/marketplace/Liferay\ Connected\ Services\ Client*.lpkg
  rm -rf ${LIFERAY_HOME}/osgi/state/
  echo "Done."

${LIFERAY_HOME} corresponds to /opt/liferay in the Liferay PaaS service.

For further instructions on including a shell script in your Liferay service, please see the links in the "Additional Information" section.

 

Additional Information

•  Running Scripts in Containers