No, I'm mistaken. I'm sorry. I must have noticed that permission problem earlier and corrected it. And didn't notice that my exception had changed. I apologize. It looks like I'm currently troubleshooting the following: 2007-07-17 09:18:30,935 ERROR [org.apache.catalina.connector.Connector] Coyote connector has not been started and: 2007-07-17 09:18:31,675 DEBUG [org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner] Unable to obtain watchUrl from deployer. Use url: file:/usr/local/jboss-eap-4.2/jboss-as/server/dojesb/deploy/deploy.last/ | java.lang.NullPointerException | at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner.getDeployer(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:88) | at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner$DeployedURL.getLastModified(URLDeploymentScanner.java:762) | at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner$DeployedURL.deployed(URLDeploymentScanner.java:734) | at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.deploy(URLDeploymentScanner.java:432) | at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.scan(URLDeploymentScanner.java:634) | at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.doScan(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:263) | at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner.startService(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:336) | at org.jboss.system.ServiceMBeanSupport.jbossInternalStart(ServiceMBeanSupport.java:289) | at org.jboss.system.ServiceMBeanSupport.jbossInternalLifecycle(ServiceMBeanSupport.java:245) | at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor3.invoke(Unknown Source) | at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) | at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) | at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ReflectedDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedDispatcher.java:155) | at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:94) | at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:86) | at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:264) | at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:659) | at org.jboss.system.ServiceController$ServiceProxy.invoke(ServiceController.java:978) | at $Proxy0.start(Unknown Source) | at org.jboss.system.ServiceController.start(ServiceController.java:417) | at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor9.invoke(Unknown Source) | at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) | at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) | at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ReflectedDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedDispatcher.java:155) | at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:94) | at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:86) | at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:264) | at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:659) | at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:210) | at $Proxy4.start(Unknown Source) | at org.jboss.deployment.SARDeployer.start(SARDeployer.java:302) | at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.start(MainDeployer.java:1025) | at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:819) | at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:782) | at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:766) | at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) | at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) | at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) | at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) | at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ReflectedDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedDispatcher.java:155) | at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:94) | at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.AbstractInterceptor.invoke(AbstractInterceptor.java:133) at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:88) | at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ModelMBeanOperationInterceptor.invoke(ModelMBeanOperationInterceptor.java:142) at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:88) | at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:264) | at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:659) | at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:210) | at $Proxy5.deploy(Unknown Source) | at org.jboss.system.server.ServerImpl.doStart(ServerImpl.java:482) | at org.jboss.system.server.ServerImpl.start(ServerImpl.java:362) | at org.jboss.Main.boot(Main.java:200) | at org.jboss.Main$1.run(Main.java:508) | at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595) | 2007-07-17 09:18:31,723 ERROR [org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner] java.lang.NullPointerException It's still true that I can start the JBoss EAP 4.2 from command line with my regular user account without problem. I just can't do so from within Eclipse 3.3 using JBoss Tools (now upgraded to JBossTools-200707170856-nightly-ALL-linux-gtk). flindet@HQISB-7Y2GF61:/usr/local/jboss-eap-4.2/jboss-as/server/dojesb/deploy> ls -ld | drwxrwxr-x 16 jboss dojesb 4096 2007-07-12 11:27 ./ | flindet@HQISB-7Y2GF61:/usr/local/jboss-eap-4.2/jboss-as/server/dojesb/deploy> ls -ld deploy.last/ | drwxrwxr-x 2 jboss dojesb 4096 2007-07-10 14:41 deploy.last/ View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4065077#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...