I have experienced the same problem in a redhat server, and problem was that the /etc/hosts file contained a mapping to server name(localhost name) to an ip address which could not be resolved from the server. This ip was used as a public ip, which provided the facility to connect external users through a firewall. Adding the server name to 127.0.0.1 mapping resolved the issue. if this wont help, try shutting down the server using shutdown.sh -S cause u can at least get an idea why the server couldn't be shutdown at once. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4045874#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...