I recently upgraded to 4.0.5GA and I found it impossible to shutdown JBoss with my application deployed. Both crtl+c and/or shutdown -S result in an attempt to shut down, but hang eventually with the appended exception. With jboss-4.0.3SP1 it works fine. Thank you G. java: 1.5.0_10 OS: windows server 2003 jboss: 4.0.5.GA 18:16:45,262 [JBoss Shutdown Hook] INFO MBeanExporter - Unregistering JMX-exposed beans on shutdown 18:16:45,262 [JBoss Shutdown Hook] INFO LocalSessionFactoryBean - Closing Hibernate SessionFactory 18:16:45,262 [JBoss Shutdown Hook] INFO SessionFactoryImpl - closing 18:16:45,278 [JBoss Shutdown Hook] INFO MBeanExporter - Unregistering JMX-exposed beans on shutdown 18:16:45,278 [JBoss Shutdown Hook] INFO SchedulerFactoryBean - Shutting down Quartz Scheduler 18:16:45,278 [JBoss Shutdown Hook] INFO QuartzScheduler - Scheduler QuartzScheduler_$_NON_CLUSTERED shutting down. 18:16:45,278 [JBoss Shutdown Hook] INFO QuartzScheduler - Scheduler QuartzScheduler_$_NON_CLUSTERED paused. 18:16:45,293 [JBoss Shutdown Hook] INFO QuartzScheduler - Scheduler QuartzScheduler_$_NON_CLUSTERED shutdown complete. 18:16:45,293 [JBoss Shutdown Hook] INFO MBeanExporter - Unregistering JMX-exposed beans on shutdown 18:16:45,309 [JBoss Shutdown Hook] INFO MBeanExporter - Unregistering JMX-exposed beans on shutdown 18:16:45,340 [JBoss Shutdown Hook] INFO LocalSessionFactoryBean - Closing Hibernate SessionFactory 18:16:45,340 [JBoss Shutdown Hook] INFO SessionFactoryImpl - closing 18:16:45,340 [JBoss Shutdown Hook] INFO LocalSessionFactoryBean - Closing Hibernate SessionFactory 18:16:45,356 [JBoss Shutdown Hook] INFO SessionFactoryImpl - closing 18:16:45,356 [JBoss Shutdown Hook] INFO EhCacheManagerFactoryBean - Shutting down EHCache CacheManager 18:16:45,356 [JBoss Shutdown Hook] INFO LocalSessionFactoryBean - Closing Hibernate SessionFactory 18:16:45,356 [JBoss Shutdown Hook] INFO SessionFactoryImpl - closing 18:16:45,699 [AWT-Windows] ERROR STDERR - Exception in thread "AWT-Windows" 18:16:47,371 [AWT-Windows] ERROR STDERR - java.lang.IllegalStateException: Shutdown in progress 18:16:47,371 [AWT-Windows] ERROR STDERR - at java.lang.Shutdown.add(Shutdown.java:81) 18:16:47,371 [AWT-Windows] ERROR STDERR - at java.lang.Runtime.addShutdownHook(Runtime.java:190) 18:16:47,371 [AWT-Windows] ERROR STDERR - at sun.awt.windows.WToolkit.run(WToolkit.java:255) 18:16:47,387 [AWT-Windows] ERROR STDERR - at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3995057#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...