hello Peter, thanks to your reply I found out that I do have an access rights issue here. If I unzip the application in my home directory, JBoss starts without complaining. What I didn't mention was that /datacommon is a shared fat32 partition, and i think i have to step through the mount options I used. Cheers from Berlin / Germany, Jan View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4172953#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...