Hi,

I get the following error when starting up the beta release in the domain mode [nohup /opt/jboss-beta/bin/domain.sh --domain-config=domain.conf -b `hostname` &]. The error occurs in the host-controller boot.log:

07:41:19,615 ERROR [org.jboss.as.controller] (Controller Boot Thread) JBAS014601: Error booting the container: java.lang.RuntimeException: org.jboss.as.controller.persistence.ConfigurationPersistenceException: JBAS014676: Failed to parse configuration

        at org.jboss.as.controller.AbstractControllerService$1.run(AbstractControllerService.java:189) [jboss-as-controller-7.1.0.Beta1.jar:]

        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) [:1.6.0_29]

Caused by: org.jboss.as.controller.persistence.ConfigurationPersistenceException: JBAS014676: Failed to parse configuration

        at org.jboss.as.controller.persistence.XmlConfigurationPersister.load(XmlConfigurationPersister.java:125) [jboss-as-controller-7.1.0.Beta1.jar:]

        at org.jboss.as.host.controller.DomainModelControllerService.boot(DomainModelControllerService.java:305) [jboss-as-host-controller-7.1.0.Beta1.jar:]

        at org.jboss.as.controller.AbstractControllerService$1.run(AbstractControllerService.java:183) [jboss-as-controller-7.1.0.Beta1.jar:]

        ... 1 more

Caused by: com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxUnexpectedCharException: Unexpected character '#' (code 35) in prolog; expected '<'

at [row,col {unknown-source}]: [1,1]

        at com.ctc.wstx.sr.StreamScanner.throwUnexpectedChar(StreamScanner.java:639)

        at com.ctc.wstx.sr.BasicStreamReader.nextFromProlog(BasicStreamReader.java:2017)

        at com.ctc.wstx.sr.BasicStreamReader.next(BasicStreamReader.java:1102)

        at com.ctc.wstx.sr.BasicStreamReader.nextTag(BasicStreamReader.java:1125)

        at org.jboss.staxmapper.XMLMapperImpl.parseDocument(XMLMapperImpl.java:57) [staxmapper-1.0.0.Final.jar:]

        at org.jboss.as.controller.persistence.XmlConfigurationPersister.load(XmlConfigurationPersister.java:117) [jboss-as-controller-7.1.0.Beta1.jar:]

        ... 3 more

Reji Nair