Problems starting up jBoss

[steph81]

Porbably an obvious answer but this one befuddles this newbie...

I have jBoss2.4-Tomcat integration on WinNT and j2sdkee1.3

When attempting to startup (run.bat) get the following:

Unable to initialize threads: cannot find class java/lang/Thread

I suspect this may be classpath issue. I have
JBOSS_CLASSPATH=d:\java\lib\classes12.zip;.;c:\j2sdkee1.3/lib/tools.jar;run.jar;../lib/crimson.jar

JAVA_HOME is set to j2sdkee1.3 location and PATH set to both jdk1.3.1 and j2sdkee1.3 locations.

Also, config files extracted include UNIX embedded return characters. Are there any distributions without the return characters for Windows?

[pai_deepak]

can u post the complete error message?

Also please check if u are in the %JBOSS%/bin directory before running the run.bat or run.sh

[steph81]

D:\jBoss\JBoss-2.4.3_Tomcat-3.2.3\jboss\bin>run
JBOSS_CLASSPATH=d:\java\lib\classes12.zip;.;c:\j2sdkee1.3/lib/tools.jar;run.jar;../lib/crimson.jar
Unable to initialize threads: cannot find class java/lang/Thread
Press any key to continue . . .

Notice I am in the bin directory

[steph81]

Looks like I had another jdk environment screwing everything up. I moved that jdk path (created by an oracle cleint) behind the proper (sun) jdk path in my environment settings and jBoss started right up.

Thanks for your help

[kurt_olsen]

This can also happen when xerces.jar is in $JAVA_HOME/lib
or $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/ext

I've been bitten several times by this.