It's empty? Did you turn off the console log? If not, it should have some contents - according to the strace the app server even opened up some sockets, so I know that it started up and thus will, by default, log to the console. Then look at the server/default/log/boot.log and server.log. See if there are any stack traces. If so, post the boot.log and the complete stack trace from server.log. (Do NOT post all of server.log. Though you could use grep to filter out the DEBUG log messages and post the rest.) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4172845#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...