Startup failure: java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: TRACE

[mrmurphy]

Hi all,
I have downloaded and installed the new JBoss 5.

Following the "installation and getting started guide" I have configured system variables. When I try to start Jboss through the run.bat I have this error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: TRACE
at org.jboss.logging.log4j.Log4jLoggerPlugin.isTraceEnabled(Log4jLoggerP
lugin.java:94)
at org.jboss.logging.Logger.isTraceEnabled(Logger.java:150)
at org.jboss.kernel.plugins.config.property.PropertyKernelConfig.initial
izeProperties(PropertyKernelConfig.java:74)
at org.jboss.kernel.plugins.config.property.PropertyKernelConfig.(
PropertyKernelConfig.java:61)...

Do you know what I have to do in order to solve the problem and enjoy JBoss???

Thanks in advance.

[jaikiran]

Did you change anything in a clean downloaded AS? And do you have any stray log4j jar files in your classpath?

[mrmurphy]

Hi,
I didn't changed anything and the classpath is empty.

Do I have to check something else?

[peterj]

From what I've seen of the installation instructions in the getting started guide, I would avoid them. The installation steps are really easy (see http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4205258, and ignore step 4 - that's a *nix only step)

But you must have a stray log4j JAR file somewhere. To track it down, set JAVA_OPTS to "-verbose:class" and then run the app server. The JVM will then print out the location of every class file loaded. This should point out the stray log4j JAR file.

cd <jboss_home>\bin
set JAVA_OPTS=-verbose:class
run.bat