Thanks for the heads-up on the WARN from flush. I'm not seeing that locally, but I checked and see it in the server logs on a hudson run. http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4734 Looking at org.jgroups.JChannelFactory.connect it's setting a (hardcoded) timeout of 3 secs for the flush to complete. I think such a short timeout will for sure be a problem on production systems when nodes join active clusters; I've taken that up w/ Bela on the jgroups dev list. But if it's happening on simple server starts, there's something else going on. Vladimir's checking it out. Re: the NPE, apparently I'm going blind, as my first pass at http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4728 did nothing and I missed it. :( This should be fixed now. It's unrelated to the earlier WARN. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4085709#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...