David- This seems like a database related issue. Although it has been tested for mysql5. I personally develop on mysql5 and hsqldb, so its not that mysql5 is not supported. Try this: 1/ Try running your portal with hsqldb. To do this swap out your portal datasource to use the hsqldb one and make sure before restarting portal, you delete {your_server_config}/data,{your_server_config}/log,{your_server_config}/tmp,{your_server_config}/work for clean install 2/Upgrade your mysql5 JDBC driver and see if that makes any difference Thanks View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4046483#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...