see this archive -> https://mail.google.com/mail/?hl=en&zx=9s8ebr8cmyvk&shva=1#search/headache+forrest/11ec0f96507a2dda
You can have a 2.1.4-snapshot build( http://people.apache.org/builds/geronimo/server/binaries/2.1/) to see it is still a problem in your machine.
