java.lang.RuntimeException after launching the upgrade process when dxp-2-7110 is installed

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 7.1.X
• Fix Version/s: None
• Component/s: Portal Services, Portal Services > Component Management > Module Framework (OSGi)
• Labels:
  • ee-ts
• Story Points: 1

Steps to reproduce:
1)Patch your liferay-dxp-7.1.10-ga1 portal with dxp-2-7110
2)Start the upgrade process (I have used the following command: java -jar com.liferay.portal.tools.db.upgrade.client.jar -j -Xmx10240m, but tested without the -j parameters as well, error is the same) exception is thrown as follows:

c:\liferay\bundles\SNLT-111\liferay-dxp-7.1.10-ga1\tools\portal-tools-db-upgrade-client>java -jar com.liferay.portal.tools.db.upgrade.client.jar -j -Xmx10240m
Loading jar:file:/C:/liferay/bundles/SNLT-111/liferay-dxp-7.1.10-ga1/tomcat-9.0.6/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/lib/portal-impl.jar!/system.properties
Loading jar:file:/C:/liferay/bundles/SNLT-111/liferay-dxp-7.1.10-ga1/tomcat-9.0.6/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/lib/portal-impl.jar!/portal.properties
Loading jar:file:/C:/liferay/bundles/SNLT-111/liferay-dxp-7.1.10-ga1/tools/portal-tools-db-upgrade-client/com.liferay.portal.tools.db.upgrade.client.jar!/portal-upgrade.properties
Loading file:/C:/liferay/bundles/SNLT-111/liferay-dxp-7.1.10-ga1/tools/portal-tools-db-upgrade-client/portal-upgrade-ext.properties
Loading file:/C:/liferay/bundles/SNLT-111/liferay-dxp-7.1.10-ga1/tools/portal-tools-db-upgrade-client/portal-upgrade-database.properties
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.RuntimeException: Error initializing storage.
        at com.liferay.portal.util.InitUtil.initWithSpring(InitUtil.java:258)
        at com.liferay.portal.util.InitUtil.initWithSpring(InitUtil.java:195)
        at com.liferay.portal.tools.DBUpgrader.main(DBUpgrader.java:102)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
        at com.liferay.portal.tools.db.upgrade.client.DBUpgraderLauncher.main(DBUpgraderLauncher.java:55)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Error initializing storage.
        at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.framework.EquinoxContainer.<init>(EquinoxContainer.java:69)
        at org.eclipse.osgi.launch.Equinox.<init>(Equinox.java:31)
        at org.eclipse.osgi.launch.EquinoxFactory.newFramework(EquinoxFactory.java:24)
        at com.liferay.portal.bootstrap.ModuleFrameworkImpl.initFramework(ModuleFrameworkImpl.java:287)
        at com.liferay.portal.module.framework.ModuleFrameworkUtilAdapter.initFramework(ModuleFrameworkUtilAdapter.java:63)
        at com.liferay.portal.util.InitUtil.initWithSpring(InitUtil.java:213)
        ... 7 more
Caused by: java.io.UTFDataFormatException: malformed input around byte 52
        at java.io.DataInputStream.readUTF(DataInputStream.java:634)
        at java.io.DataInputStream.readUTF(DataInputStream.java:564)
        at org.eclipse.osgi.container.ModuleDatabase$Persistence.readString(ModuleDatabase.java:1551)
        at org.eclipse.osgi.container.ModuleDatabase$Persistence.readModule(ModuleDatabase.java:1107)
        at org.eclipse.osgi.container.ModuleDatabase$Persistence.load(ModuleDatabase.java:1025)
        at org.eclipse.osgi.container.ModuleDatabase.load(ModuleDatabase.java:879)
        at org.eclipse.osgi.storage.Storage.<init>(Storage.java:147)
        at org.eclipse.osgi.storage.Storage.createStorage(Storage.java:87)
        at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.framework.EquinoxContainer.<init>(EquinoxContainer.java:67)
        ... 12 more

Additional information: I have used the same type of DB which the client has (MySQL 5.7), faced another error, which was solved by downloading and applying the attached jar.
mysql-connector-java-8.0.12.jar

Issue reproduced with dxp-1-7110 as well.