Thanks for looking into this. "bstansberry(a)jboss.com" wrote : If you shut down the first node and the 2nd becomes master, does the EJB deploy properly? Yes, when I shut down node 1, the EJB does seem to properly deploy / start on node 2 when it becomes the master. So it appears to work. What alarmed me was the logging level of ERROR, but it sounds like that may simply be a side effect of how things are wired with the MC. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4240869#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...