Is your C drive full? The only other thing I can think of is a security error, but usually in that case you get a security exception. Also, are you saying that is your app is not deployed then the app server starts up just fine? If so, what happens if you deploy your app after the server is started? And what kind of app are you deploying? View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4222158#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...