Flink javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverterImpl stack trace

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AsynchronousException{java.lang.Exception: Could not materialize checkpoint 14 for operator Source: Custom Source -> Flat Map (3/4).}
        at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask$AsyncCheckpointExceptionHandler.tryHandleCheckpointException(StreamTask.java:1153)
        at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask$AsyncCheckpointRunnable.handleExecutionException(StreamTask.java:947)
        at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask$AsyncCheckpointRunnable.run(StreamTask.java:884)
        at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Caused by: java.lang.Exception: Could not materialize checkpoint 14 for operator Source: Custom Source -> Flat Map (3/4).
        at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask$AsyncCheckpointRunnable.handleExecutionException(StreamTask.java:942)
        ... 6 more
Caused by: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: java.io.IOException: Could not flush and close the file system output stream to s3://bucket-name-redacted/state-savepoints/sima/savepoint-145d7a-2c804f50014e/1f9d4ae6-fa48-43e2-853a-fe4d80146d89 in order to obtain the stream state handle
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.report(FutureTask.java:122)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(FutureTask.java:192)
        at org.apache.flink.util.FutureUtil.runIfNotDoneAndGet(FutureUtil.java:53)
        at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.OperatorSnapshotFinalizer.<init>(OperatorSnapshotFinalizer.java:53)
        at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask$AsyncCheckpointRunnable.run(StreamTask.java:853)
        ... 5 more
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Could not flush and close the file system output stream to s3://bucket-name-redacted/state-savepoints/sima/savepoint-145d7a-2c804f50014e/1f9d4ae6-fa48-43e2-853a-fe4d80146d89 in order to obtain the stream state handle
        at org.apache.flink.runtime.state.filesystem.FsCheckpointStreamFactory$FsCheckpointStateOutputStream.closeAndGetHandle(FsCheckpointStreamFactory.java:326)
        at org.apache.flink.runtime.state.DefaultOperatorStateBackend$DefaultOperatorStateBackendSnapshotStrategy$1.callInternal(DefaultOperatorStateBackend.java:805)
        at org.apache.flink.runtime.state.DefaultOperatorStateBackend$DefaultOperatorStateBackendSnapshotStrategy$1.callInternal(DefaultOperatorStateBackend.java:734)
        at org.apache.flink.runtime.state.AsyncSnapshotCallable.call(AsyncSnapshotCallable.java:76)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
        at org.apache.flink.util.FutureUtil.runIfNotDoneAndGet(FutureUtil.java:50)
        ... 7 more
Caused by: java.io.IOException: regular upload failed: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverterImpl
        at org.apache.flink.fs.shaded.hadoop3.org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.S3AUtils.extractException(S3AUtils.java:291)
        at org.apache.flink.fs.shaded.hadoop3.org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.S3ABlockOutputStream.putObject(S3ABlockOutputStream.java:448)
        at org.apache.flink.fs.shaded.hadoop3.org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.S3ABlockOutputStream.close(S3ABlockOutputStream.java:360)
        at org.apache.flink.fs.shaded.hadoop3.org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSDataOutputStream$PositionCache.close(FSDataOutputStream.java:72)
        at org.apache.flink.fs.shaded.hadoop3.org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSDataOutputStream.close(FSDataOutputStream.java:101)
        at org.apache.flink.fs.s3.common.hadoop.HadoopDataOutputStream.close(HadoopDataOutputStream.java:52)
        at org.apache.flink.runtime.state.filesystem.FsCheckpointStreamFactory$FsCheckpointStateOutputStream.closeAndGetHandle(FsCheckpointStreamFactory.java:312)
        ... 12 more
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverterImpl
        at javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter.initConverter(DatatypeConverter.java:140)
        at javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter.printBase64Binary(DatatypeConverter.java:611)
        at org.apache.flink.fs.s3base.shaded.com.amazonaws.util.Base64.encodeAsString(Base64.java:62)
        at org.apache.flink.fs.s3base.shaded.com.amazonaws.util.Md5Utils.md5AsBase64(Md5Utils.java:104)
        at org.apache.flink.fs.s3base.shaded.com.amazonaws.services.s3.AmazonS3Client.putObject(AmazonS3Client.java:1647)
        at org.apache.flink.fs.shaded.hadoop3.org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.S3AFileSystem.putObjectDirect(S3AFileSystem.java:1531)
        at org.apache.flink.fs.shaded.hadoop3.org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.WriteOperationHelper.lambda$putObject$5(WriteOperationHelper.java:426)
        at org.apache.flink.fs.shaded.hadoop3.org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.Invoker.once(Invoker.java:109)
        at org.apache.flink.fs.shaded.hadoop3.org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.Invoker.lambda$retry$3(Invoker.java:260)
        at org.apache.flink.fs.shaded.hadoop3.org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.Invoker.retryUntranslated(Invoker.java:317)
        at org.apache.flink.fs.shaded.hadoop3.org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.Invoker.retry(Invoker.java:256)
        at org.apache.flink.fs.shaded.hadoop3.org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.Invoker.retry(Invoker.java:231)
        at org.apache.flink.fs.shaded.hadoop3.org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.WriteOperationHelper.retry(WriteOperationHelper.java:123)
        at org.apache.flink.fs.shaded.hadoop3.org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.WriteOperationHelper.putObject(WriteOperationHelper.java:424)
        at org.apache.flink.fs.shaded.hadoop3.org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.S3ABlockOutputStream.lambda$putObject$0(S3ABlockOutputStream.java:433)
        at org.apache.flink.fs.shaded.hadoop3.org.apache.hadoop.util.SemaphoredDelegatingExecutor$CallableWithPermitRelease.call(SemaphoredDelegatingExecutor.java:219)
        at org.apache.flink.fs.shaded.hadoop3.org.apache.hadoop.util.SemaphoredDelegatingExecutor$CallableWithPermitRelease.call(SemaphoredDelegatingExecutor.java:219)
        ... 4 more

Hi. Any updates on this issue?

Updates: It was an issue in my case where xercesImpl-2.11.0.jar is located in the libs folder. I removed it and it works.