We've build Jboss AS from source and deployed it on our test setup. The application servers from 3 tiers do not start properly. They all give similar errors to this one:

15:38:18,159 ERROR [stderr] (Remoting "app3" task-1) Exception in thread "Remoting "app3" task-1" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
15:38:18,160 ERROR [stderr] (Remoting "app3" task-1) at org.jboss.ejb.client.remoting.VersionReceiver.handleMessage(VersionReceiver.java:102)
15:38:18,160 ERROR [stderr] (Remoting "app3" task-1) at org.jboss.remoting3.remote.RemoteConnectionChannel$5.run(RemoteConnectionChannel.java:437)
15:38:18,160 ERROR [stderr] (Remoting "app3" task-1) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)
15:38:18,160 ERROR [stderr] (Remoting "app3" task-1) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)
15:38:18,161 ERROR [stderr] (Remoting "app3" task-1) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:679)
15:38:18,161 ERROR [stderr] (Remoting "app3" task-1) Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid logger interface org.jboss.ejb.client.Logs (implementation not found)
15:38:18,161 ERROR [stderr] (Remoting "app3" task-1) at org.jboss.logging.Logger.getMessageLogger(Logger.java:2250)
15:38:18,161 ERROR [stderr] (Remoting "app3" task-1) at org.jboss.logging.Logger.getMessageLogger(Logger.java:2214)
15:38:18,161 ERROR [stderr] (Remoting "app3" task-1) at org.jboss.ejb.client.Logs.<clinit>(Logs.java:50)
15:38:18,162 ERROR [stderr] (Remoting "app3" task-1) ... 5 more
15:38:23,150 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-2) MSC00001: Failed to start service jboss.ejb3.dd-based-ejb-client-context."authentication.ear": org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.ejb3.dd-based-ejb-client-context."authentication.ear": Failed to start service
at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1767) [jboss-msc-1.0.2.GA.jar:1.0.2.GA]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110) [rt.jar:1.6.0_24]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603) [rt.jar:1.6.0_24]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:679) [rt.jar:1.6.0_24]
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.jboss.ejb.client.Logs
at org.jboss.ejb.client.remoting.RemotingConnectionEJBReceiver.associate(RemotingConnectionEJBReceiver.java:166)
at org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBClientContext.registerEJBReceiver(EJBClientContext.java:302)
at org.jboss.ejb.client.EJBClientContext.registerEJBReceiver(EJBClientContext.java:257)
at org.jboss.as.ejb3.remote.DescriptorBasedEJBClientContextService.registerRemotingEJBReceivers(DescriptorBasedEJBClientContextService.java:159)
at org.jboss.as.ejb3.remote.DescriptorBasedEJBClientContextService.start(DescriptorBasedEJBClientContextService.java:102)
at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1811) [jboss-msc-1.0.2.GA.jar:1.0.2.GA]
at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1746) [jboss-msc-1.0.2.GA.jar:1.0.2.GA]
... 3 more

15:38:23,156 INFO [org.jboss.as] (MSC service thread 1-3) JBAS015961: Http management interface listening on http://192.168.122.17:9990/management
15:38:23,157 INFO [org.jboss.as] (MSC service thread 1-3) JBAS015951: Admin console listening on http://192.168.122.17:9990
15:38:23,157 ERROR [org.jboss.as] (MSC service thread 1-3) JBAS015875: JBoss AS 7.1.3.Final-SNAPSHOT "Steropes" started (with errors) in 9673ms - Started 183 of 337 services (7 services failed or missing dependencies, 146 services are passive or on-demand)