When shutting downt he server with: shutdown.sh --shutdown The exception that is being thrown is: Exception: Could not obtain connection to any of these urls: localhost:1099 [Root exception is javax.naming.CommunicationException: Failed to connect to server localhost:1099 [Root exception is javax.naming.ServiceUnavailableException: Failed to connect to server localhost:1099 [Root exception is java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused (errno:239)]]] at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.checkRef(NamingContext.java:1414) at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:594) at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:587) at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:351) at org.jboss.Shutdown.main(Shutdown.java:214) Caused by: javax.naming.CommunicationException: Failed to connect to server localhost:1099 [Root exception is javax.naming.ServiceUnavailableException: Failed to connect to server localhost:1099 [Root exception is java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused (errno:239)]] at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.getServer(NamingContext.java:269) at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.checkRef(NamingContext.java:1385) ... 4 more Caused by: javax.naming.ServiceUnavailableException: Failed to connect to server localhost:1099 [Root exception is java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused (errno:239)] at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.getServer(NamingContext.java:243) ... 5 more Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused (errno:239) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:333) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:195) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:182) at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:366) at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:517) at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:467) at java.net.Socket.(Socket.java:364) at java.net.Socket.(Socket.java:265) at org.jnp.interfaces.TimedSocketFactory.createSocket(TimedSocketFactory.java:84) at org.jnp.interfaces.TimedSocketFactory.createSocket(TimedSocketFactory.java:77) at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.getServer(NamingContext.java:239) ... 5 more Why is this? I take it this is not a good shutdown of JBoss so what can I do to resolve the issue? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4061364#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...