I reproduced (I think) the failures by doing the following: 1) building jars (ant buildJars) 2) creating a new empty directory and cd'ing there 3) export CLASSPATH=/path/to/derbyrun.jar:/path/to/derbyTesting.jar:/path/to/junit.jar 4) java org.apache.derbyTesting.functionTests.harness.RunSuite derbytools
The test results appear in 'derbytools_report.txt'. thanks, bryan