# Illegal reflective access operation occured in com.inductiveautomation.ignition.gateway.modules.ModuleManagerImpl

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/illegal-reflective-access-operation-occured-in-com-inductiveautomation-ignition-gateway-modules-modulemanagerimpl/74880>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81\
**Created:** [June 11, 2023, 7:37am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/illegal-reflective-access-operation-occured-in-com-inductiveautomation-ignition-gateway-modules-modulemanagerimpl/74880 "2023-06-11T07:37:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Salman\_Faris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@Salman\_Faris](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Salman_Faris)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2023, 7:37am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/illegal-reflective-access-operation-occured-in-com-inductiveautomation-ignition-gateway-modules-modulemanagerimpl/74880/1 "2023-06-11T07:37:14Z")

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I am receiving the following warning logs in the ignition upon start or restart of the ignition.  
Its states that to report to the code maintainer.  
Version: **8.1.20**

```auto
poc-gateway-1 | jvm 2 | 2023/06/08 11:36:53 | WARNING: An illegal reflective access operation has occurred
poc-gateway-1 | jvm 2 | 2023/06/08 11:36:53 | WARNING: Illegal reflective access by com.inductiveautomation.ignition.gateway.modules.ModuleManagerImpl (file:/usr/local/share/ignition/lib/core/gateway/gateway-8.1.13.jar) to field java.lang.ClassLoader.usr_paths
poc-gateway-1 | jvm 2 | 2023/06/08 11:36:53 | WARNING: Please consider reporting this to the maintainers of com.inductiveautomation.ignition.gateway.modules.ModuleManagerImpl
poc-gateway-1 | jvm 2 | 2023/06/08 11:36:53 | WARNING: Use --illegal-access=warn to enable warnings of further illegal r

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2023, 12:26pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/illegal-reflective-access-operation-occured-in-com-inductiveautomation-ignition-gateway-modules-modulemanagerimpl/74880/2 "2023-06-11T12:26:28Z")

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Totally normal. That message is from a pedant in the OpenJDK project.