jboss startup failure

[corban]

when i try to start jboss on linux i get the following error message. my problem is: crimson.jar IS in the correct path (../lib/) and it is NOT corrupt. what's wrong?

JBOSS_CLASSPATH=:run.jar:../lib/crimson.jar
jboss.home = /usr/local/jboss
Using JAAS LoginConfig: file:/usr/local/jboss/conf/default/auth.conf
JBoss release: JBoss-2.4.4 CVSTag=JBoss_2_4_4
JBoss version: 2.4.4.2001-12-29 02:04:40 PST
Using configuration "default"
[INFO,root] Started Log4jService, config=file:/usr/local/jboss/conf/default/log4j.properties
[INFO,Info] Java version: 1.3.0_02,Sun Microsystems Inc.
[INFO,Info] Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM 1.3.0_02,Sun Microsystems Inc.
[INFO,Info] System: Linux 2.2.16,i386
[INFO,Shutdown] Shutdown hook added
[INFO,Default] Runtime error
javax.xml.parsers.FactoryConfigurationError: org.apache.crimson.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl
at javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(DocumentBuilderFactory.java:80)

at org.jboss.configuration.ConfigurationService.loadConfiguration(ConfigurationService.java:449)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)

at com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1628)

at com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1523)

at org.jboss.Main.(Main.java:200)

at org.jboss.Main$1.run(Main.java:110)

at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)

at org.jboss.Main.main(Main.java:106)

please help, i have no clue what could be wrong.

thanks in advance

[kmasterj]

Hi,

I had the same problem with crimson.jar. Seems like it's a problem with two XML factories in place. I replaced crimson by Xerces and now at least the server comes up.

See

http://www.jboss.org/online-manual/HTML/ch13s135.html

for details (copied below).

To change JBoss to use the Xerces parser, you would need change the setup to that shown in Figure 13.31 assuming you copied the xerces.jar into the JBoss lib directory.

Figure 13.31. The run.sh setup for the Xerces xml parsers

# Add the XML parser jars and set the JAXP factory names
# Xerces parser JAXP setup
CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:../lib/xerces.jar
JAXP=-Djavax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory=org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl
JAXP="$JAXP -Djavax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory=org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl"