Hi folks, I'm having trouble trying to figure this out. Any help would be appreciated. I have 2 nodes that I am trying to cluster. If I start up node A and then node B, I get an error saying 12:35:05,988 WARN [ServiceController] Problem starting service jboss.cache:service=TomcatClusteringCache org.jboss.cache.CacheException: Initial state transfer failed: Channel.getState() returned false However, if I start up node B and then node A, everything starts up just fine. Firewalls are disabled and both have the same cluster-service.xml configuration. I have read some FAQs saying that I should increase timeout, but that didn't help either. I also set the following in my tree cache configuration: <pbcast.STATE_TRANSFER down_thread="true" up_thread="true"/> And that didn't help either. Any ideas? thanx, Phil View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4025508#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...