2300130 - Unable to initialize OData offline store due to MODataException error

Executing an initial sync to create the OData offline store fails to complete.   The following error occurred in the SMP server log:

2016 031510:43:31#0-400#ERROR#com.sap.mobile.platform.server.mobilink.SessionLogger##testcopilot2#Thread-144##b0518a23-e352-492c-b062-c28d6620b852#com.xxxxxx.xxxxxxxxx#c7655326-e9f1-11e5-8000-a747d10b8706#RequestResponse#500##[-100025] An error occurred while communicating with the OData server to retrieve the result of request "http://xxxxxxx.na.xxxxx.com:8000/com.xxxxxx.xxxxxxx/$metadata" com.sap.odata.offline.util.MODataException: [-100025] An error occurred while communicating with the OData server to retrieve the result of request "http://xxxxxxxxx.na.xxxxxx.com:8000/com.xxxxxx.copilotstaging/$metadata"
at com.sap.odata.offline.request.RequestHandler.retrieveMetadataDocument(RequestHandler.java:230)
at com.sap.odata.offline.scripts.ODataSyncHandler.prepareMetadata(ODataSyncHandler.java:358)
at com.sap.odata.offline.scripts.ODataSyncHandler.doHandleUploadData(ODataSyncHandler.java:210)
at com.sap.odata.offline.scripts.ODataSyncHandler$1.call(ODataSyncHandler.java:175)
at com.sap.odata.offline.smp.MLSMPFactory.executeWithContext(MLSMPFactory.java:162)
at com.sap.odata.offline.smp.MLSMPFactory.executeWithContext(MLSMPFactory.java:179)
at com.sap.odata.offline.scripts.ODataSyncHandler.handle_UploadData(ODataSyncHandler.java:180)
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 ianywhere.ml.script.MethodInfo.invoke(MethodInfo.java:11834)
Caused by: com.sap.odata.offline.util.MODataException: [-100010] Retrieve metadata failed because the OData server returned HTTP code, 500, with message: null
at com.sap.odata.offline.request.RequestHandler.retrieveMetadataDocument(RequestHandler.java:199)

There were no errors in the NetWeaver Gateway log.

SMP 3.0.8 and above
NetWeaver Gateway 2.0 and above

SMP OData MODataException , KBA , MOB-ONP-OOD , SAP Mobile On Premise Offline OData Server , Problem