Probably the permissions the (JBoss) user is running on linux.

Greetings,
Frito

I had this same problem... it seems that WebService creation hangs when the server doesn't have a fully qualified inet name (i.e. nodename. domainname) when viewed from the localhost on which it is running.

I'm working with an Xpc form-factor machine that I move back and forth between home and work... I found that my inet name wasn't fully qualified in one of the environments (nodename only without domainname) and that is where I experienced this problem.

A quick (and possibly dirty) solution is to insure that you have an entry for your server (with both nodename. domainname and alias of nodename only) in your /etc/hosts file (on the server).

In any case, JBoss shouldn't just hang forever... we should be seeing some error info displayed here.

I've been trying to run jboss on my mandrake 9.1. My default config doesn't have a fully qualified name, only 127.0.0.1 localhost in /etc/hosts.

In Jboss 3.2.1 it hags the way previously described.
In Jboss 4.0.0. it hangs forever (or at my patience limit :-)) at the message:

20:19:48,065 INFO [Server] Core system initialized
20:19:48,119 INFO [MainDeployer] Starting deployment of package: file:/opt/jboss-4.0.0DR1_tomcat-4.1.24/server/default/conf/jboss-service.xml
20:19:48,168 INFO [SARDeployer] looking for nested deployments in : file:/opt/jboss-4.0.0DR1_tomcat-4.1.24/server/default/conf/jboss-service.xml

Both problems in default configuration, and both solved by adding any fully qualified namein /etc/hosts.

Actually, you just have to make sure that whatever the "hostname" command returns is listed in your /etc/hosts under 127.0.0.1.

For example, on my machine:
$ hostname
merlin

/etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1 localhost merlin someOtherAlias

Regards,
jck