Thanks for your reply. I found the problem. This is a clustered environment, and the sys-admin set up the servers to point to a shared netapp. The tmp directory was part of that shared space. When I started one server everything was fine. Then when I started the next server, the temp files were getting overwritten. That one took forever to track down. :) View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4210052#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...