Are you still signed in as root when you run jbossas? Try signing in with your normal account and put jbossas in your home directory and run it as your account and see if that works. Are you running a 32-bit or 64-bit Linux? If 64-bit, if the JDK 32 or 64 bit? With a persistent bus error I would suspect a faulty JDK installation. Where did your get the JDK from? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4142997#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...