After going through the instructions here for tomcat 6.x, I am trying to get a simple SSB to run (that previously worked in Embedded EJB RC9) with no luck.

Here it is installed through the Tomcat console:

[Initialization] Installing components...
[Component] Component: TestAction, scope: STATELESS, type: STATELESS_SESSION_BEAN, class: com.mycompany.TestActionBean, JNDI: Test

But when I hit the page that references this bean (or any page in the webapp) I get the following stack:

INFO: Server startup in 18992 ms
18:06:07,530 INFO [Contexts] starting up: org.jboss.seam.security.identity
18:06:07,530 INFO [Contexts] starting up: org.jboss.seam.web.session
18:06:07,560 ERROR [SeamPhaseListener] uncaught exception
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Could not start transaction
 at org.jboss.seam.jsf.SeamPhaseListener.begin(SeamPhaseListener.java:569)
 at org.jboss.seam.jsf.SeamPhaseListener.handleTransactionsBeforePhase(SeamPhaseListener.java:308)
 at org.jboss.seam.jsf.SeamPhaseListener.beforeServletPhase(SeamPhaseListener.java:143)
 at org.jboss.seam.jsf.SeamPhaseListener.beforePhase(SeamPhaseListener.java:116)
 at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.phase(LifecycleImpl.java:249)
 at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.execute(LifecycleImpl.java:132)
 at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:244)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
 at org.jboss.seam.web.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:70)
 at org.jboss.seam.debug.hot.HotDeployFilter.doFilter(HotDeployFilter.java:63)
 at org.jboss.seam.web.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:56)
 at org.jboss.seam.web.MultipartFilter.doFilter(MultipartFilter.java:80)
 at org.jboss.seam.web.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:56)
 at org.jboss.seam.web.ExceptionFilter.doFilter(ExceptionFilter.java:62)
 at org.jboss.seam.web.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:56)
 at org.ajax4jsf.framework.ajax.xmlfilter.BaseXMLFilter.doXmlFilter(BaseXMLFilter.java:127)
 at org.ajax4jsf.framework.ajax.xmlfilter.BaseFilter.doFilter(BaseFilter.java:277)
 at org.jboss.seam.web.Ajax4jsfFilter.doFilter(Ajax4jsfFilter.java:34)
 at org.jboss.seam.web.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:56)
 at org.jboss.seam.web.SeamFilter.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:127)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:230)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:175)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:128)
 at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:104)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
 at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:261)
 at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:844)
 at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:581)
 at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:447)
 at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: exception invoking: getTransaction
 at org.jboss.seam.util.Reflections.invokeAndWrap(Reflections.java:134)
 at org.jboss.seam.Component.callComponentMethod(Component.java:1978)
 at org.jboss.seam.Component.unwrap(Component.java:2004)
 at org.jboss.seam.Component.getInstance(Component.java:1791)
 at org.jboss.seam.Component.getInstance(Component.java:1756)
 at org.jboss.seam.Component.getInstance(Component.java:1733)
 at org.jboss.seam.Component.getInstance(Component.java:1728)
 at org.jboss.seam.transaction.Transaction.instance(Transaction.java:58)
 at org.jboss.seam.jsf.SeamPhaseListener.begin(SeamPhaseListener.java:561)
 ... 32 more
Caused by: javax.naming.NamingException: Local server is not initialized
 at org.jnp.interfaces.LocalOnlyContextFactory.getInitialContext(LocalOnlyContextFactory.java:45)
 at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getInitialContext(NamingManager.java:667)
 at javax.naming.InitialContext.getDefaultInitCtx(InitialContext.java:247)
 at javax.naming.InitialContext.init(InitialContext.java:223)
 at javax.naming.InitialContext.<init>(InitialContext.java:197)
 at org.jboss.seam.util.Naming.getInitialContext(Naming.java:35)
 at org.jboss.seam.util.Naming.getInitialContext(Naming.java:47)
 at org.jboss.seam.transaction.Transaction.getUserTransaction(Transaction.java:100)
 at org.jboss.seam.transaction.Transaction.createUTTransaction(Transaction.java:93)
 at org.jboss.seam.transaction.Transaction.getTransaction(Transaction.java:66)
 at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
 at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
 at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
 at org.jboss.seam.util.Reflections.invoke(Reflections.java:21)
 at org.jboss.seam.util.Reflections.invokeAndWrap(Reflections.java:124)
 ... 40 more
18:06:07,790 ERROR [DebugPageHandler] redirecting to debug page

It loops through this for a while, so is this a getTransaction/dataSource error? I tried to remove everything that had to do with persistence (i.e a bare components.xml, etc...)

<core:ejb installed="true"/>

 <core:init debug="true" jndi-pattern="#{ejbName}/local"/>

 <core:manager concurrent-request-timeout="500"
 conversation-timeout="120000" />

Any ideas?