The problem is that the start exception thrown by the DynamicLoginConfig.startService method is transititioning the ServiceControllerContext to an error state, but no exception is thrown from the ServiceController.start(ObjectName) method. | ServiceControllerContext@256bf3{name=jboss:service=TestDynamicLoginConfig target=null state=**ERROR** mode=Manual requiredState=Installed depends=AbstractDependencyInfo@e2e2bf{idependOn=[]} error=java.lang.IllegalStateException: AuthConfig is defaulting to conf/login-config.xml. Please check your archive. | at org.jboss.security.auth.login.DynamicLoginConfig.validateAuthConfigURL(DynamicLoginConfig.java:271) | at org.jboss.security.auth.login.DynamicLoginConfig.startService(DynamicLoginConfig.java:219) | at org.jboss.system.ServiceMBeanSupport.jbossInternalStart(ServiceMBeanSupport.java:289) | at org.jboss.system.ServiceMBeanSupport.jbossInternalLifecycle(ServiceMBeanSupport.java:245) | at jrockit.reflect.VirtualNativeMethodInvoker.invoke(Ljava.lang.Object;[Ljava.lang.Object;)Ljava.lang.Object;(Unknown Source) | at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Ljava.lang.Object;[Ljava.lang.Object;I)Ljava.lang.Object;(Unknown Source) | at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ReflectedDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedDispatcher.java:157) | at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:96) | at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:88) | at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:264) | at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:668) | at org.jboss.system.microcontainer.ServiceProxy.invoke(ServiceProxy.java:167) | at $Proxy0.start()V(Unknown Source) | at org.jboss.system.microcontainer.StartStopLifecycleAction.installAction(StartStopLifecycleAction.java:42) | at org.jboss.system.microcontainer.ServiceControllerContextAction.install(ServiceControllerContextAction.java:46) | at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractControllerContextActions.install(AbstractControllerContextActions.java:51) | at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractControllerContext.install(AbstractControllerContext.java:226) | at org.jboss.system.microcontainer.ServiceControllerContext.install(ServiceControllerContext.java:198) | at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.install(AbstractController.java:709) | at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.incrementState(AbstractController.java:429) | at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:538) | at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:472) | at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.change(AbstractController.java:320) | at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.change(AbstractController.java:190) | at org.jboss.system.ServiceController.doChange(ServiceController.java:632) | at org.jboss.system.ServiceController.start(ServiceController.java:407) | } | The test fails at this point because it was expecting an exception to be thrown from the start attempt. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3966589#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...