Peter, I want to thank you for taking the time to help! I compaired your ds-xml to mine and they look the same. here is mine: | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> | <datasources> | <local-tx-datasource> | <jndi-name>PortalDS</jndi-name> | <connection-url>jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/jbossportal?useServerPrepStmts=false&amp;jdbcCompliantTruncation=false</connection-url> | <driver-class>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</driver-class> | <user-name>portalUser</user-name> | <password>portalUser</password> | </local-tx-datasource> | </datasources> | anonymous wrote : The 'table not found' error is expected the first time you run the portal with a new database. Hibernate creates the table automatically. | I was aware that some errors happened with the initial startup but I've seen this one before. I just rebooted and here are the errors during startup: | INFO [FacesConfigurator] Reading config /WEB-INF/faces-config.xml | ERROR [LocaleUtils] Locale name null or empty, ignoring | | ... snip ... | | WARN [EhCacheProvider] Could not find configuration [org.hibernate.cache.UpdateTimestampsCache]; using defaults. | INFO [StandardQueryCache] starting query cache at region: org.hibernate.cache.StandardQueryCache | WARN [EhCacheProvider] Could not find configuration [org.hibernate.cache.StandardQueryCache]; using defaults. | WARN [JDBCExceptionReporter] SQL Error: 1146, SQLState: 42S02 | ERROR [JDBCExceptionReporter] Table 'jbossportal.jbp_instance_per_user' doesn't exist | INFO [Dialect] Using dialect: org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect | ...snip... | 17:14:22,593 ERROR [SchemaUpdate] Unsuccessful: create table JBP_INSTANCE_PER_USER (PK bigint not null auto_increment, INSTANCE_PK bigint, SER_STATE longblob, USER_ID varchar(170) not null, PORTLET_RE | F varchar(170) not null, primary key (PK), unique (USER_ID, PORTLET_REF)) | 17:14:22,593 ERROR [SchemaUpdate] Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes | 17:14:22,609 ERROR [SchemaUpdate] Unsuccessful: alter table JBP_INSTANCE_PER_USER add index FK9349B3D05EE4E4AE (INSTANCE_PK), add constraint FK9349B3D05EE4E4AE foreign key (INSTANCE_PK) references JBP | _INSTANCE (PK) | 17:14:22,609 ERROR [SchemaUpdate] Table 'jbossportal.jbp_instance_per_user' doesn't exist | 17:14:22,609 INFO [SchemaUpdate] schema update complete | Do you think I should go ahead and drop the database and re-create as you show above? I don't have any data. Perhaps since I don't have the hybernate -ds.xml there anymore it will treate it as the initial startup and will create everyting for me. Thanks again, Andrew View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3967939#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...