Another relevant part of the stack trace. Caused by: org.hibernate.HibernateException: Unable to locate current JTA transaction | at org.hibernate.context.JTASessionContext.currentSession(JTASessionContext.java:61) at org.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryImpl.getCurrentSession(SessionFactoryImpl.java:544) | at org.jboss.portal.identity.db.HibernateUserModuleImpl.getCurrentSession(HibernateUserModuleImpl.java:298) | at org.jboss.portal.identity.db.HibernateUserModuleImpl.findUserByUserName(HibernateUserModuleImpl.java:90) | ... 255 more View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4131964#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...