The problem was on the cruisecontrol run, which AFAIK does a clean checkout and builds from scratch.  
 
I'll update my checkout on dev02 and run a test with jrockit 1.4. If the problem's gone I'll assume a change after the cc run fixed it (until cruisecontrol says otherwise).  If the problem's still there I let you know.
From: Dimitris Andreadis
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 9:59 AM
To: Brian Stansberry; 'qa@jboss.com'; 'alex.loubyansky@jboss.com'; 'jboss-development@lists.jboss.org'; QA; Shakthi Sambasivam; Thomas Diesler
Subject: RE: jboss-4.0-testsuite-1.4 Build Failed

Update your thirdparty libs - Thomas changed org.jboss.util.xml.DOMWriter a couple of times.

From: Brian Stansberry
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 5:51 PM
To: qa@jboss.com; alex.loubyansky@jboss.com; Dimitris Andreadis; jboss-development@lists.jboss.org; QA; Shakthi Sambasivam; Thomas Diesler
Subject: RE: jboss-4.0-testsuite-1.4 Build Failed

Is anyone aware of anything that changed yesterday that would affect W3C DOM parsing on the Branch_4_0 jrockit 1.4 tests? Something different there caused the cruisecontrol run to fail.
 
As part of JBossCache configuration, an Element is passed into an mbean attribute.  JBC parses the element into a string, which it passes to JGroups.  The parsed string is logged. Logging and a look at the JBC code shows that Element.getAttributes() is now returning an empty map whereas before it was properly returning attributes.
Log from broken run:
2006-09-29 06:52:15,122 DEBUG [org.jboss.cache.TreeCache] setting cluster properties from xml to: TCP:TCPPING:MERGE2:FD_SOCK:FD:VERIFY_SUSPECT:pbcast.NAKACK:pbcast.STABLE:pbcast.GMS:FC:FRAG2:pbcast.STATE_TRANSFER
Log from previous good run:
 
06:45:05,739 DEBUG [org.jboss.cache.TreeCache] setting cluster properties from xml to: TCP(bind_addr=localhost;down_thread=false;loopback=true;start_port=7810;tcp_nodelay=false;up_thread=false):TCPPING(down_thread=false;initial_hosts=localhost[7810],build01-01.pri[7810];num_initial_members=3;port_range=3;timeout=3500;up_thread=false):MERGE2(down_thread=false;max_interval=10000;min_interval=5000;up_thread=false):FD_SOCK(down_thread=false;up_thread=false):FD(down_thread=false;max_tries=5;shun=true;timeout=10000;up_thread=false):VERIFY_SUSPECT(down_thread=false;timeout=1500;up_thread=false):pbcast.NAKACK(down_thread=false;gc_lag=100;retransmit_timeout=3000;up_thread=false):pbcast.STABLE(desired_avg_gossip=20000;down_thread=false;up_thread=false):pbcast.GMS(down_thread=false;join_retry_timeout=2000;join_timeout=5000;print_local_addr=true;shun=true;up_thread=false):FC(down_thread=false;max_credits=2000000;min_threshold=0.10;up_thread=false):FRAG2(down_thread=false;frag_size=60000;up_thread=false):pbcast.STATE_TRANSFER(down_thread=false;up_thread=false)
 
Thanks,
Brian

From: qa@jboss.com [mailto:qa@jboss.com]
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 5:59 AM
To: alex.loubyansky@jboss.com; Brian Stansberry; Dimitris Andreadis; jboss-development@lists.jboss.org; QA; Shakthi Sambasivam; Thomas Diesler
Subject: jboss-4.0-testsuite-1.4 Build Failed
Importance: High

View results here -> http://cruisecontrol.jboss.com/cc/buildresults/jboss-4.0-testsuite-1.4?log=log20060929044539

BUILD FAILED
Ant Error Message: /services/cruisecontrol/work/scripts/build-jboss-common.xml:242: The following error occurred while executing this line: /services/cruisecontrol/work/scripts/build-jboss-common.xml:156: Exit code: 1 See tests.log in Build Artifacts for details.
Date of build: 09/29/2006 04:45:39
Time to build: 129 minutes 49 seconds
Last changed: 09/29/2006 03:50:40
Last log entry: fix for JBAS-3717

 Unit Tests: (0)  Total Errors and Failures: (0)
 

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57281 modified alex.loubyansky@jboss.com //branches/Branch_4_0/server/src/main/org/jboss/ejb/EjbModule.java fix for JBAS-3717
57280 modified alex.loubyansky@jboss.com //branches/Branch_4_0/testsuite/imports/sections/cmp.xml testcase for JBAS-3717
57279 added alex.loubyansky@jboss.com //branches/Branch_4_0/testsuite/src/resources/cmp2/jbas3717 testcase for JBAS-3717
57279 added alex.loubyansky@jboss.com //branches/Branch_4_0/testsuite/src/resources/cmp2/jbas3717/ejb testcase for JBAS-3717
57279 added alex.loubyansky@jboss.com //branches/Branch_4_0/testsuite/src/resources/cmp2/jbas3717/ejb/META-INF testcase for JBAS-3717
57279 added alex.loubyansky@jboss.com //branches/Branch_4_0/testsuite/src/resources/cmp2/jbas3717/ear/META-INF/jboss-app.xml testcase for JBAS-3717
57279 added alex.loubyansky@jboss.com //branches/Branch_4_0/testsuite/src/resources/cmp2/jbas3717/ear testcase for JBAS-3717
57279 added alex.loubyansky@jboss.com //branches/Branch_4_0/testsuite/src/resources/cmp2/jbas3717/ear/META-INF testcase for JBAS-3717
57279 added alex.loubyansky@jboss.com //branches/Branch_4_0/testsuite/src/resources/cmp2/jbas3717/ear/META-INF/application.xml testcase for JBAS-3717
57279 added alex.loubyansky@jboss.com //branches/Branch_4_0/testsuite/src/resources/cmp2/jbas3717/ejb/META-INF/ejb-jar.xml testcase for JBAS-3717
57279 added alex.loubyansky@jboss.com //branches/Branch_4_0/testsuite/src/resources/cmp2/jbas3717/ejb/META-INF/jboss.xml testcase for JBAS-3717
57279 added alex.loubyansky@jboss.com //branches/Branch_4_0/testsuite/src/resources/cmp2/jbas3717/ejb/META-INF/jbosscmp-jdbc.xml testcase for JBAS-3717
57278 added alex.loubyansky@jboss.com //branches/Branch_4_0/testsuite/src/main/org/jboss/test/cmp2/jbas3717 testcase for JBAS-3717
57278 added alex.loubyansky@jboss.com //branches/Branch_4_0/testsuite/src/main/org/jboss/test/cmp2/jbas3717/MyEntityCommand.java testcase for JBAS-3717
57278 added alex.loubyansky@jboss.com //branches/Branch_4_0/testsuite/src/main/org/jboss/test/cmp2/jbas3717/ALocalHome.java testcase for JBAS-3717
57278 added alex.loubyansky@jboss.com //branches/Branch_4_0/testsuite/src/main/org/jboss/test/cmp2/jbas3717/ABean.java testcase for JBAS-3717
57278 added alex.loubyansky@jboss.com //branches/Branch_4_0/testsuite/src/main/org/jboss/test/cmp2/jbas3717/ALocal.java testcase for JBAS-3717
57278 added alex.loubyansky@jboss.com //branches/Branch_4_0/testsuite/src/main/org/jboss/test/cmp2/jbas3717/JBAS3717UnitTestCase.java testcase for JBAS-3717
57269 modified ssambasivam@jboss.com //branches/Branch_4_0/console/src/main/org/jboss/console/twiddle/command/SetCommand.java JIRA-JBAS-3454When we try to set MBean attribute using SetCommand class, the arguments are filtered by the Getopt utility class used in the SetCommand class. But, the validity of the arguments should (can) be checked by the corresponding MBeans instead of the GetOpt class.
57268 modified ssambasivam@jboss.com //branches/Branch_4_0/console/src/main/org/jboss/console/twiddle/command/SetAttrsCommand.java JIRA-JBAS-3454When we try to set MBean attribute using SetCommand class, the arguments are filtered by the Getopt utility class used in the SetCommand class. But, the validity of the arguments should (can) be checked by the corresponding MBeans instead of the GetOpt class.
57267 modified bstansberry@jboss.com //branches/Branch_4_0/build/build-thirdparty.xml Use jgroups 2.2.7.SP1
57261 modified dimitris@jboss.org //branches/Branch_4_0/testsuite/build.xml re-enable webservices tests to test if the memory leak is gone
57260 modified dimitris@jboss.org //branches/Branch_4_0/testsuite/src/main/org/jboss/test/security/test/JaasSecurityManagerUnitTestCase.java JBAS-3716, fix the test execution order
57258 modified thomas.diesler@jboss.com //branches/Branch_4_0/build/build-thirdparty.xml jbossws-1.0.3.SP1