was able to fix it. i specified additional variables in bashrc and also added the following to catalina.sh: # Setup JBosst Native library path JBOSSWEB_NATIVE_DIR="$JBOSSWEB_HOME/bin/native" if [ -d "$JBOSSWEB_NATIVE_DIR" ]; then if $cygwin ; then export PATH="$JBOSSWEB_NATIVE_DIR:$PATH" JBOSSWEB_NATIVE_DIR=`cygpath --dos "$JBOSSWEB_NATIVE_DIR"` fi if [ "x$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" = "x" ]; then LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$JBOSSWEB_NATIVE_DIR" else LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$JBOSSWEB_NATIVE_DIR:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" fi export LD_LIBRARY_PATH if [ "x$JAVA_OPTS" = "x" ]; then JAVA_OPTS="-Djava.library.path=$JBOSSWEB_NATIVE_DIR" else JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Djava.library.path=$JBOSSWEB_NATIVE_DIR" fi fi Now I see this: INFO: Loaded Apache Tomcat Native library 1.1.16. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4204862#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...