RabbitMQ listener stops listening messages when MessageListener throws exception first time - rabbitmq

Question

I am facing a unusual problem, after an exception is thrown during processing of first message, Spring Amqp MessageListener stops picking up any further messages.In my code I am not explicitly doing any resource locking. Can anyone please suggest what is the problem.Any help will be appreciated as I am falling short of ideas.
MQ configuraion:
<rabbit:admin id="rabbitAdmin" connection-factory="rabbitConnectionFactory" />
<rabbit:connection-factory
id="rabbitConnectionFactory"
host="${rabbitmq.host}"
port="${rabbitmq.port}"
username="${rabbitmq.username}"
password="${rabbitmq.password}"/>
<!--
Configure the rabbitTemplate helper class to simplify rabbitMQ
access (sending and receiving message).
The default Exchange is used here.
-->
<rabbit:template id="rabbitTemplate" connection-factory="rabbitConnectionFactory" message-converter="rabbitSimpleMessageConverter" retry-template="rabbitRetryTemplate" />
<bean id="rabbitRetryTemplate" class="org.springframework.retry.support.RetryTemplate">
<property name="backOffPolicy">
<bean class="org.springframework.retry.backoff.ExponentialBackOffPolicy">
<property name="initialInterval" value="500" />
<property name="multiplier" value="5" />
<property name="maxInterval" value="90000" />
</bean>
</property>
<property name="retryPolicy">
<bean class="org.springframework.retry.policy.SimpleRetryPolicy">
<property name="maxAttempts" value="5"/>
</bean>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="rabbitRetryInterceptor" class="org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.config.StatefulRetryOperationsInterceptorFactoryBean">
<property name="messageRecoverer" ref="rejectAndDontRequeueRecoverer"/>
<property name="retryOperations" ref="rabbitRetryTemplate" />
</bean>
<!-- Consumers -->
<bean id="genericMessageConsumer" class="org.bla.GenericMessageConsumer" />
<rabbit:listener-container
connection-factory="rabbitConnectionFactory"
advice-chain="rabbitRetryInterceptor"
concurrency="${rabbitmq.concurrency}"
max-concurrency="${rabbitmq.maxconcurrency}"
acknowledge="auto" >
<rabbit:listener ref="genericMessageConsumer" queue-names="${rabbitmq.orion.genericNotificationdata.queueName}" />
</rabbit:listener-container>
MessageListener class
public class GenericMessageConsumer implements MessageListener{
....
#Override
public void onMessage(Message message) {
try{
...Some logic...
} catch (Exception e) {
throw new RuntimeException(e.getMessage(), e);
}
After exception is thrown while processing first message, The container remains up but the remaining messages are not processed until i restart the container. Also the first messages stays in unacknowledged state.
Tried checking other posts same as my issue:
1) RabbitMQ listener stops listening messages when MessageListener throws exception
but am unable to figure out the solution.