Hi List, I've just recently begun to see this error occur sporadically when starting JBoss after being freshly built from the cvs head. I was able to find a build on another machine that's a few days old, and it boots fine. However, when I deploy a user ear on this older build (very simple example from Wrox book) the same error occurs. With the latest cvs code, this error happens when deploying internal Jboss packages (not sure of the terminology). Since it occurs in the scanner thread, I can't undeploy/redeploy the test ear. Any ideas on what may be causing this? I've tried doing a 'build.sh clean' then 'build.sh' but it still happens. Let me know if I can help in tracking this down. I was doing this test ear in order to report another bug, so now I have nested problems. Justin
11:20:13,577 ERROR [MainDeployer] could not start deployment: file:/home/casp/projects/jboss/jboss-all/build/output/jboss-3.1.0alpha/server/default/deploy/localobjects.jar java.lang.NullPointerException at org.jboss.util.NestedThrowable$Util.getBoolean(NestedThrowable.java:108) at org.jboss.util.NestedThrowable.<clinit>(NestedThrowable.java:39) at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:120) at org.jboss.util.NestedThrowable$Util.class$(NestedThrowable.java:27) at org.jboss.util.NestedThrowable$Util.<clinit>(NestedThrowable.java:100) at org.jboss.util.NestedException.<init>(NestedException.java:50) at org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException.<init>(DeploymentException.java:44) at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.cmp.jdbc.JDBCStartCommand.createTable(JDBCStartCommand.java:190) at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.cmp.jdbc.JDBCStartCommand.execute(JDBCStartCommand.java:84) at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.cmp.jdbc.JDBCStoreManager.start(JDBCStoreManager.java:384) at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.CMPPersistenceManager.start(CMPPersistenceManager.java:198) at org.jboss.ejb.EntityContainer.startService(EntityContainer.java:360) at org.jboss.system.ServiceMBeanSupport.start(ServiceMBeanSupport.java:198) at org.jboss.ejb.Container.invoke(Container.java:782) at org.jboss.ejb.EntityContainer.invoke(EntityContainer.java:1024) at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:549) at org.jboss.system.ServiceController$ServiceProxy.invoke(ServiceController.java:867) at $Proxy0.start(Unknown Source) at org.jboss.system.ServiceController.start(ServiceController.java:339) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) at org.jboss.mx.capability.ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.java:284) at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:549) at org.jboss.util.jmx.MBeanProxy.invoke(MBeanProxy.java:174) at $Proxy19.start(Unknown Source) at org.jboss.ejb.EjbModule.startService(EjbModule.java:442) at org.jboss.system.ServiceMBeanSupport.start(ServiceMBeanSupport.java:198) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) at org.jboss.mx.capability.ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.java:284) at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:549) at org.jboss.system.ServiceController$ServiceProxy.invoke(ServiceController.java:867) at $Proxy0.start(Unknown Source) at org.jboss.system.ServiceController.start(ServiceController.java:339) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) at org.jboss.mx.capability.ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.java:284) at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:549) at org.jboss.util.jmx.MBeanProxy.invoke(MBeanProxy.java:174) at $Proxy5.start(Unknown Source) at org.jboss.ejb.EJBDeployer.start(EJBDeployer.java:391) at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.start(MainDeployer.java:693) at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:528) at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:490) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) at org.jboss.mx.capability.ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.java:284) at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:549) at org.jboss.util.jmx.MBeanProxy.invoke(MBeanProxy.java:174) at $Proxy4.deploy(Unknown Source) at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.deploy(URLDeploymentScanner.java:405) at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.scanDirectory(URLDeploymentScanner.java:586) at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.scan(URLDeploymentScanner.java:465) at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.loop(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:202) at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.run(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:191) 11:20:13,618 ERROR [STDERR] java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError 11:20:13,619 ERROR [STDERR] at org.jboss.util.NestedException.<init>(NestedException.java:50) 11:20:13,620 ERROR [STDERR] at org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException.<init>(DeploymentException.java:44) 11:20:13,621 ERROR [STDERR] at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.start(MainDeployer.java:706) 11:20:13,622 ERROR [STDERR] at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:528) 11:20:13,623 ERROR [STDERR] at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:490) 11:20:13,624 ERROR [STDERR] at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) 11:20:13,625 ERROR [STDERR] at org.jboss.mx.capability.ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedMBeanDispatcher.java:284) 11:20:13,626 ERROR [STDERR] at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:549) 11:20:13,627 ERROR [STDERR] at org.jboss.util.jmx.MBeanProxy.invoke(MBeanProxy.java:174) 11:20:13,628 ERROR [STDERR] at $Proxy4.deploy(Unknown Source) 11:20:13,629 ERROR [STDERR] at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.deploy(URLDeploymentScanner.java:405) 11:20:13,630 ERROR [STDERR] at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.scanDirectory(URLDeploymentScanner.java:586) 11:20:13,631 ERROR [STDERR] at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.scan(URLDeploymentScanner.java:465) 11:20:13,632 ERROR [STDERR] at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.loop(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:202) 11:20:13,634 ERROR [STDERR] at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.run(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:191) _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Jboss-development mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development