Same problem.
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: The org.hibernate.cache.spi.UpdateTimestampsCache Cache is not alive (STATUS_SHUTDOWN)
at net.sf.ehcache.Cache$CacheStatus.checkAlive(Cache.java:4267)
at net.sf.ehcache.Cache.checkStatus(Cache.java:2701)
at net.sf.ehcache.Cache.putInternal(Cache.java:1406)
at net.sf.ehcache.Cache.put(Cache.java:1383)
at net.sf.ehcache.Cache.put(Cache.java:1348)
at org.hibernate.cache.ehcache.internal.regions.EhcacheGeneralDataRegion.put(EhcacheGeneralDataRegion.java:106)

1.. Check that you have only ehcache library in your classpath
2.. check that all entities are in ehcache.xml

I fixed it.