Thank you, oozie - this moved me forward a bit. However now I am getting other errors, resulting in DefaultPartition failure: 2008-11-06 09:50:41,351 WARN [org.jgroups.blocks.ConnectionTable] packet from /192.168.5.41:3954 has different version (12338) from ours (4353). This may cause problems 2008-11-06 09:50:41,361 WARN [org.jgroups.blocks.ConnectionTable] exception is java.net.UnknownHostException: addr is of illegal length 2008-11-06 09:50:41,831 INFO [org.jboss.ha.framework.interfaces.HAPartition.DefaultPartition] Number of cluster members: 2 2008-11-06 09:50:41,841 INFO [org.jboss.ha.framework.interfaces.HAPartition.DefaultPartition] Other members: 1 2008-11-06 09:50:41,841 INFO [org.jboss.ha.framework.interfaces.HAPartition.DefaultPartition] Fetching state (will wait for 30000 milliseconds): 2008-11-06 09:50:45,867 WARN [org.jgroups.protocols.pbcast.STATE_TRANSFER] Initiator of flush and state requesting member 192.168.5.42:7800 timed out waiting for flush responses after 4000 msec 2008-11-06 09:50:50,914 WARN [org.jgroups.protocols.pbcast.STATE_TRANSFER] Initiator of flush and state requesting member 192.168.5.42:7800 timed out waiting for flush responses after 4000 msec 2008-11-06 09:50:56,192 WARN [org.jgroups.protocols.pbcast.STATE_TRANSFER] Initiator of flush and state requesting member 192.168.5.42:7800 timed out waiting for flush responses after 4000 msec 2008-11-06 09:51:03,172 WARN [org.jgroups.protocols.pbcast.STATE_TRANSFER] Initiator of flush and state requesting member 192.168.5.42:7800 timed out waiting for flush responses after 4000 msec 2008-11-06 09:51:07,308 WARN [org.jgroups.protocols.pbcast.STATE_TRANSFER] Initiator of flush and state requesting member 192.168.5.42:7800 timed out waiting for flush responses after 4000 msec 2008-11-06 09:51:12,946 WARN [org.jgroups.protocols.pbcast.STATE_TRANSFER] Initiator of flush and state requesting member 192.168.5.42:7800 timed out waiting for flush responses after 4000 msec 2008-11-06 09:51:14,038 WARN [org.jboss.system.ServiceController] Problem starting service jboss:service=DefaultPartition java.lang.IllegalStateException: Initial state transfer failed: Channel.getState() returned false ..... And then: 2008-11-06 09:52:22,726 ERROR [org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner] Incomplete Deployment listing: --- MBeans waiting for other MBeans --- ObjectName: jboss:service=DefaultPartition State: FAILED Reason: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Initial state transfer failed: Channel.getState() returned false View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4187433#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...