[jboss-user] Problem with deploying Kitchensink with Maven plugin

Tried to re-deploy the kitchensink sample in jboss 7.1.1. mvn package jboss-as:deploy But get the error message: [INFO] --- jboss-as-maven-plugin:7.1.1.Final:deploy (default-cli) @ jboss-as-kitchensink --- May 03, 2012 11:53:37 AM org.xnio.Xnio <clinit> INFO: XNIO Version 3.0.3.GA May 03, 2012 11:53:37 AM org.xnio.nio.NioXnio <clinit> INFO: XNIO NIO Implementation Version 3.0.3.GA May 03, 2012 11:53:37 AM org.jboss.remoting3.EndpointImpl <clinit> INFO: JBoss Remoting version 3.2.3.GA [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] BUILD FAILURE [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 7.284s [INFO] Finished at: Thu May 03 11:53:42 PDT 2012 [INFO] Final Memory: 13M/227M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.jboss.as.plugins:jboss-as-maven-plugin:7.1.1.Final:deploy (default-cli) on project jboss-as-kitchensink: Error executing FORCE_DEPLOY: Could not execute operation '{ [ERROR] "operation" => "read-children-names", [ERROR] "child-type" => "deployment" [ERROR] }': java.net.ConnectException: JBAS012144: Could not connect to remote://localhost:9999. The connection timed out Anyone has the same experience? Thank you for any pointers.