You should check the JBoss Servers View and expand the "Event Log" to see what's going wrong in startup. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4145984#4145984 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4145984