2907121 - "Initializing WCE components" takes too long

You might encounter slow startup of the NW Java system.

All the AS Java Components are Green.
In Java Threads you can see a long running thread doing:
"Initializing WCE components for application [null] in WebContainer"

In the callstack of the thread you can see:

application="sap.com/com.sap.km.application" isapplicationthread="true" tid=0x00000168533d3800 nid=0x30cc / 12492 runnable [_thread_in_native (_at_safepoint), stack(0x00000041ff200000,0x00000041ff400000)] [0x00000041ff3fc000]
java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE
at java.io.WinNTFileSystem.getBooleanAttributes(Ljava/io/File;)I(Native Method)
at java.io.File.exists()Z(File.java:743)
at com.sapportals.wcm.repository.util.file.StdFileImpl.exists()Z(StdFileImpl.java:62)
at com.sapportals.wcm.repository.manager.sfs.FSRepositoryManager.startUpImpl()V(FSRepositoryManager.java:214)
at com.sapportals.wcm.repository.manager.AbstractRepositoryManager.start()V(AbstractRepositoryManager.java:529)
...

In addition you can see the following error also in the Default Trace file:

#Error#com.sapportals.wcm.service.urlgenerator.URLGenerator#
#EP-KM-FWK-RF#sap.com/com.sap.netweaver.bc.rf.service#C0000A64641F00150000001A00002C14#22275350000011734#sap.com/com.sap.km.application#com.sapportals.wcm.service.urlgenerator.URLGenerator#Guest#08027FB813B9A11EA853100000153E516#8027fb813b9a11ea853100000153e5160#Application [17]#Plain##
getImageUri
[EXCEPTION]
com.sapportals.wcm.repository.InvalidUriException: Invalid RID: No repository manager found for prefix: /etc
at com.sapportals.wcm.repository.runtime.CmAdapter.handleUnknownManager(CmAdapter.java:1667)
...

• SAP NetWeaver
• SAP Composition Environment

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