https://community.jboss.org/en/jbossas7/dev was the page I went to, looking at the posts there seemed to be the correct spot to ask questions then saw this:

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not setting up log4j, using it:
LOG.info(String.format("%s startup() invoked.", className));

-warner

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 2:20 PM, James R. Perkins <jperkins@redhat.com> wrote:
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> What forum by chance?
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> Maybe the lib directory is correct, but I thought it only loaded JAR's. I could be wrong though. Is the com.fourtwosix.razorfish.j2eeservices.RfServiceControl.startup doing something to setup log4j?
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> On 04/16/2013 02:15 PM, Warner Onstine wrote:
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> I went to the forum and it said to post to the mailing list, is there a different forum I should be using?
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> And I have had it in both places same results (after having it in META-INF I found several posts that said to put it in the lib directory, including the migration guide).
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> -warner
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 1:50 PM, James R. Perkins <jperkins@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> This should really be a post on the forum, but your log4j.xml file should probably be in EAR/META-INF not EAR/lib.
>>
>>
>> On 04/16/2013 11:57 AM, Warner Onstine wrote:
>>
>> I have tried multiple different ways to get my log4j working, but to no avail. When we were on 7.1.1 the below worked beautifully. We migrated to 7.1.3 (EAP 6.0.1GA) and it is no longer working and I've gone through several of the forum solutions as well as the migration guide but nothing seems to be working.
>>
>> Here's my current jboss-deployment-structure file:
>> <jboss-deployment-structure xmlns="urn:jboss:deployment-structure:1.2">
>>     <ear-subdeployments-isolated>false</ear-subdeployments-isolated>
>>     <deployment>
>>         <exclusions>
>>             <module name="org.apache.log4j"/>
>>         </exclusions>
>>     </deployment>
>>
>>     <sub-deployment name="rf-service-ejb-0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar">
>>         <exclusions>
>>             <module name="org.apache.log4j"/>
>>         </exclusions>
>>         <dependencies>
>>             <module name="deployment.rf-service-ear.ear.Log4j"/>
>>         </dependencies>
>>     </sub-deployment>
>>
>>     <module name="deployment.rf-service-ear.ear.Log4j">
>>         <resources>
>>             <resource-root path="lib/log4j-1.2.17.jar">
>>             </resource-root>
>>         </resources>
>>     </module>
>> </jboss-deployment-structure>
>>
>> I've tried just the basic exclusion (and nothing else). I have also added this to the server startup (as recommended by the migration guide):
>> -Dorg.jboss.as.logging.per-deployment=false
>>
>> My current error is below
>> 11:47:47,252 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 95) MSC000001: Failed to start service jboss.deployment.subunit."rf-service-ear.ear"."rf-service-ejb-0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar".component.RfServiceControl.START: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.subunit."rf-service-ear.ear"."rf-service-ejb-0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar".component.RfServiceControl.START: java.lang.IllegalStateException: JBAS011048: Failed to construct component instance
>> at org.jboss.as.ee.component.ComponentStartService$1.run(ComponentStartService.java:57) [jboss-as-ee-7.1.3.Final-redhat-4.jar:7.1.3.Final-redhat-4]
>> at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471) [rt.jar:1.7.0_15]
>> at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334) [rt.jar:1.7.0_15]
>> at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166) [rt.jar:1.7.0_15]
>> at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) [rt.jar:1.7.0_15]
>> at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) [rt.jar:1.7.0_15]
>> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722) [rt.jar:1.7.0_15]
>> at org.jboss.threads.JBossThread.run(JBossThread.java:122)
>> Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: JBAS011048: Failed to construct component instance
>> at org.jboss.as.ee.component.BasicComponent.constructComponentInstance(BasicComponent.java:163) [jboss-as-ee-7.1.3.Final-redhat-4.jar:7.1.3.Final-redhat-4]
>> at org.jboss.as.ee.component.BasicComponent.createInstance(BasicComponent.java:85) [jboss-as-ee-7.1.3.Final-redhat-4.jar:7.1.3.Final-redhat-4]
>> at org.jboss.as.ejb3.component.singleton.SingletonComponent.getComponentInstance(SingletonComponent.java:118)
>> at org.jboss.as.ejb3.component.singleton.SingletonComponent.start(SingletonComponent.java:133)
>> at org.jboss.as.ee.component.ComponentStartService$1.run(ComponentStartService.java:54) [jboss-as-ee-7.1.3.Final-redhat-4.jar:7.1.3.Final-redhat-4]
>> ... 7 more
>> Caused by: javax.ejb.EJBException: JBAS014580: Unexpected Error
>> at org.jboss.as.ejb3.tx.CMTTxInterceptor.handleExceptionInOurTx(CMTTxInterceptor.java:161)
>> at org.jboss.as.ejb3.tx.CMTTxInterceptor.invokeInOurTx(CMTTxInterceptor.java:228)
>> at org.jboss.as.ejb3.tx.CMTTxInterceptor.requiresNew(CMTTxInterceptor.java:331)
>> at org.jboss.as.ejb3.tx.SingletonLifecycleCMTTxInterceptor.processInvocation(SingletonLifecycleCMTTxInterceptor.java:57)
>> at org.jboss.invocation.InterceptorContext.proceed(InterceptorContext.java:288) [jboss-invocation-1.1.1.Final-redhat-2.jar:1.1.1.Final-redhat-2]
>> at org.jboss.as.ejb3.component.interceptors.CurrentInvocationContextInterceptor.processInvocation(CurrentInvocationContextInterceptor.java:41)
>> at org.jboss.invocation.InterceptorContext.proceed(InterceptorContext.java:288) [jboss-invocation-1.1.1.Final-redhat-2.jar:1.1.1.Final-redhat-2]
>> at org.jboss.as.ee.component.TCCLInterceptor.processInvocation(TCCLInterceptor.java:45) [jboss-as-ee-7.1.3.Final-redhat-4.jar:7.1.3.Final-redhat-4]
>> at org.jboss.invocation.InterceptorContext.proceed(InterceptorContext.java:288) [jboss-invocation-1.1.1.Final-redhat-2.jar:1.1.1.Final-redhat-2]
>> at org.jboss.invocation.ChainedInterceptor.processInvocation(ChainedInterceptor.java:61) [jboss-invocation-1.1.1.Final-redhat-2.jar:1.1.1.Final-redhat-2]
>> at org.jboss.as.ee.component.BasicComponent.constructComponentInstance(BasicComponent.java:161) [jboss-as-ee-7.1.3.Final-redhat-4.jar:7.1.3.Final-redhat-4]
>> ... 11 more
>> Caused by: java.lang.LinkageError: loader constraint violation: when resolving field "LOG" the class loader (instance of org/jboss/modules/ModuleClassLoader) of the referring class, com/fourtwosix/razorfish/common/j2eeservices/ServiceControlBase, and the class loader (instance of org/jboss/modules/ModuleClassLoader) for the field's resolved type, viceControlBase, have different Class objects for that type
>> at com.fourtwosix.razorfish.j2eeservices.RfServiceControl.startup(RfServiceControl.java:32)
>> at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) [rt.jar:1.7.0_15]
>> at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) [rt.jar:1.7.0_15]
>> at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) [rt.jar:1.7.0_15]
>> at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601) [rt.jar:1.7.0_15]
>> at org.jboss.as.ee.component.ManagedReferenceLifecycleMethodInterceptorFactory$ManagedReferenceLifecycleMethodInterceptor.processInvocation(ManagedReferenceLifecycleMethodInterceptorFactory.java:130) [jboss-as-ee-7.1.3.Final-redhat-4.jar:7.1.3.Final-redhat-4]
>> at org.jboss.invocation.InterceptorContext.proceed(InterceptorContext.java:288) [jboss-invocation-1.1.1.Final-redhat-2.jar:1.1.1.Final-redhat-2]
>> at org.jboss.invocation.WeavedInterceptor.processInvocation(WeavedInterceptor.java:53) [jboss-invocation-1.1.1.Final-redhat-2.jar:1.1.1.Final-redhat-2]
>> at org.jboss.invocation.InterceptorContext.proceed(InterceptorContext.java:288) [jboss-invocation-1.1.1.Final-redhat-2.jar:1.1.1.Final-redhat-2]
>> at org.jboss.as.weld.injection.WeldInjectionInterceptor.processInvocation(WeldInjectionInterceptor.java:73)
>> at org.jboss.invocation.InterceptorContext.proceed(InterceptorContext.java:288) [jboss-invocation-1.1.1.Final-redhat-2.jar:1.1.1.Final-redhat-2]
>> at org.jboss.as.ee.component.ManagedReferenceInterceptorFactory$ManagedReferenceInterceptor.processInvocation(ManagedReferenceInterceptorFactory.java:95) [jboss-as-ee-7.1.3.Final-redhat-4.jar:7.1.3.Final-redhat-4]
>> at org.jboss.invocation.InterceptorContext.proceed(InterceptorContext.java:288) [jboss-invocation-1.1.1.Final-redhat-2.jar:1.1.1.Final-redhat-2]
>> at org.jboss.invocation.WeavedInterceptor.processInvocation(WeavedInterceptor.java:53) [jboss-invocation-1.1.1.Final-redhat-2.jar:1.1.1.Final-redhat-2]
>> at org.jboss.invocation.InterceptorContext.proceed(InterceptorContext.java:288) [jboss-invocation-1.1.1.Final-redhat-2.jar:1.1.1.Final-redhat-2]
>> at org.jboss.as.ee.component.NamespaceContextInterceptor.processInvocation(NamespaceContextInterceptor.java:50) [jboss-as-ee-7.1.3.Final-redhat-4.jar:7.1.3.Final-redhat-4]
>> at org.jboss.invocation.InterceptorContext.proceed(InterceptorContext.java:288) [jboss-invocation-1.1.1.Final-redhat-2.jar:1.1.1.Final-redhat-2]
>> at org.jboss.as.ejb3.tx.CMTTxInterceptor.invokeInOurTx(CMTTxInterceptor.java:226)
>> ... 20 more
>>
>> Anyone have any clue what I'm doing wrong? (Oh, and I've verified that my log4j.xml file is in my lib directory as is the log4j-1.2.17.jar file.
>>
>> Thanks in advance, been beating my head against this particular rock for the past 2 days.
>>
>> -warner
>>
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