I did work with a clean build. I verified it again now. I am creating a profileservice config by: 1. moving conf/bootstrap-repo-beans.xml.xml to conf/bootstrap-beans.xml 2. moving deployers/profileservice-beans.xml.bak to deployers/profileservice-beans.xml I am unable to start the server with the same error as above. 12:43:05,277 INFO [ServerImpl] Starting Microcontainer, bootstrapURL=file:/qa/home/rrajasekaran/jboss-trunk/build/output/jboss-5.0.0.Beta3/server/profileservice/conf/bootstrap-beans.xml | 12:43:07,196 INFO [ProfileServiceImpl] Loading profile: profileservice from: org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.SerializableDeploymentRepository@df2d38(root=/qa/home/rrajasekaran/jboss-trunk/build/output/jboss-5.0.0.Beta3/server, key=org.jboss.profileservice.spi.ProfileKey@99c7696e[domain=default,server=default,name=profileservice]) | 12:43:07,199 INFO [ProfileImpl] Using repository:org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.SerializableDeploymentRepository@df2d38(root=/qa/home/rrajasekaran/jboss-trunk/build/output/jboss-5.0.0.Beta3/server, key=org.jboss.profileservice.spi.ProfileKey@99c7696e[domain=default,server=default,name=profileservice]) | 12:43:07,347 ERROR [AbstractKernelController] Error installing to PreInstall: name=AspectDeployer state=Not Installed | java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/jboss/deployers/plugins/deployer/AbstractSimpleDeployer View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4061396#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...