2497068 - Comparison method violates its general contract in SLD Log

When trying to register a system in the SLD, the system is not registered and the following error message can be found in the sld log:

#838352 06/29/2017 07:56:18.089 [SLD Data Supplier Processing] ERROR com.sap.lcr.sagent.BuilderDirector: Unexpected error during processing of supplied data.
Thrown: 
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Comparison method violates its general contract!
 at java.util.TimSort.mergeLo(TimSort.java:777)
 at java.util.TimSort.mergeAt(TimSort.java:514)
 at java.util.TimSort.mergeCollapse(TimSort.java:441)
 at java.util.TimSort.sort(TimSort.java:245)
 at java.util.Arrays.sort(Arrays.java:1512)
 at java.util.ArrayList.sort(ArrayList.java:1454)
 at java.util.Collections.sort(Collections.java:175)
 at com.sap.lcr.sagent.specificbuilder.SupplierUtil.getSortedClone(SupplierUtil.java:781)
 at com.sap.lcr.sagent.specificbuilder.SupplierUtil.getFingerprint(SupplierUtil.java:579)
 at com.sap.lcr.sagent.specificbuilder.AbstractBuilder.work(AbstractBuilder.java:312)
 at com.sap.lcr.sagent.specificbuilder.BCSystemBuilder.work(BCSystemBuilder.java:35)
 at com.sap.lcr.sagent.BuilderDirector.performLocalWork(BuilderDirector.java:833)
 at com.sap.lcr.sagent.BuilderDirector.performWork(BuilderDirector.java:664)
 at com.sap.lcr.sagent.BuilderDirector.run(BuilderDirector.java:450)
 at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:808)

• SAP AS Netweaver Java release independent;
• JRE 1.6 or higher;
• OS/DB Independent.

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