Cannot start JBOSS

[patricks]

Hi,
i'm new to Jboss and have problems to get it running. I followed the installation notes by using the .zip method, i was using release 4.2.2GA. Here's some info:
- OS = Windows XP
- i have JDK 1.5.0_16 running
- i deployed my JBOSS_HOME variable as requested
- the extraction of .zip seemed working fine, by using the jar command,
- when i execute the run.bat, there is no output at all, and of course nothing running under port "http://localhost:8080/"
- there is no log subdirectory in server/default where i could check some logs.
So where can I troubleshoot next?
Thanks, Patrick

[peterj]

Here are a few things that commonly go wrong:

1) You do not have JAVA_HOME set properly (make sure it is set to the base directory, and not to the bin directory)
2) You are running into the findstr problem (http://www.jboss.org/community/docs/DOC-9758)

If that does not help, do this:
a) Edit the run.bat file, deleting or commenting out the first line
b) Open a command prompt, 'cd' to the bin directory and run run.bat
c) Post the full output from the command prompt window

[patricks]

Many thanks, point 1) helped, took away "jre\bin\" from JAVA_HOME. Thanks Peter