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 _______________________________________________ jboss-as7-dev mailing list jboss-as7-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jboss-as7-dev