You are running tests that are deploying and undeploying queues.. right? Maybe the queue was undeployed right before shutdown with messages still sitting on the journal, and Maybe you Ctrl-C while the deletes were being made. When the server was restart, maybe there was messages still on the journal, while the queue was already gone... and the server wouldn't start because of that. If this is the case we need to ignore these messages (providing warnings on the log). or maybe provide deletes in a two way on the Bindings Journal. An update on mark-to-delete followed by another delete when the messages were gone. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4213449#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...