Now to see if this issue happen in earlier version, I have installed jboss-4.0.2 and when i start and then stop using shutdown.sh script it successfully shutdown the jboss server. But same thing is not happeing with jboss-4.2.2.GA version. I see below when i start jboss-4.0.2 :- 10:14:20,446 INFO [Server] Core system initialized 10:14:23,439 INFO [Log4jService$URLWatchTimerTask] Configuring from URL: resource:log4j.xml 10:14:23,552 INFO [WebService] Using RMI server codebase: http://localhost:8083/ 10:14:23,876 INFO [NamingService] Started jndi bootstrap jnpPort=1099, rmiPort=1098, backlog=50, bindAddress=/0.0.0.0, Client SocketFactory=null, Server SocketFactory=org.jboss.net.sockets.DefaultSocketFactory@ad093076 10:14:29,585 INFO [SnmpAgentService] SNMP agent going active 10:14:30,706 INFO [DefaultPartition] Initializing I see below when i start jboss-4.2.2.GA :- 09:44:47,015 INFO [Server] Core system initialized 09:44:51,369 INFO [WebService] Using RMI server codebase: http://localhost:8083/ 09:44:51,377 INFO [Log4jService$URLWatchTimerTask] Configuring from URL: resource:jboss-log4j.xml 09:44:52,553 INFO [TransactionManagerService] JBossTS Transaction Service (JTA version) - JBoss Inc. 09:44:52,554 INFO [TransactionManagerService] Setting up property manager MBean and JMX layer 09:44:53,004 INFO [TransactionManagerService] Starting recovery manager 09:44:53,197 INFO [TransactionManagerService] Recovery manager started 09:44:53,197 INFO [TransactionManagerService] Binding TransactionManager JNDI Reference 09:44:58,622 INFO [EJB3Deployer] Starting java:comp multiplexer 09:45:01,106 INFO [STDOUT] If you see from both output "NamingService" is not started in jboss-4.2.2.GA. Is this could be the issue?? Yes, which file i have to do the changes? Thanks. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4115928#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...