Here is what the console is showing. it gets as far as rar deployment and hangs. yet the whole thing goes swimmingly when launched from the command line. when I try to access the console from mozilla that just hangs as well.

00:19:26,213 INFO [Server] Starting JBoss (MX MicroKernel)...
00:19:26,270 INFO [Server] Release ID: JBoss [Zion] 4.0.3SP1 (build: CVSTag=JBoss_4_0_3_SP1 date=200510231751)
00:19:26,271 INFO [Server] Home Dir: /usr/java/j2eesdk-1_4/jboss-4.0.3SP1
00:19:26,271 INFO [Server] Home URL: file:/usr/java/j2eesdk-1_4/jboss-4.0.3SP1/
00:19:26,272 INFO [Server] Patch URL: null
00:19:26,272 INFO [Server] Server Name: default
00:19:26,273 INFO [Server] Server Home Dir: /usr/java/j2eesdk-1_4/jboss-4.0.3SP1/server/default
00:19:26,273 INFO [Server] Server Home URL: file:/usr/java/j2eesdk-1_4/jboss-4.0.3SP1/server/default/
00:19:26,273 INFO [Server] Server Temp Dir: /usr/java/j2eesdk-1_4/jboss-4.0.3SP1/server/default/tmp
00:19:26,273 INFO [Server] Root Deployment Filename: jboss-service.xml
00:19:27,561 INFO [ServerInfo] Java version: 1.5.0_03,Sun Microsystems Inc.
00:19:27,562 INFO [ServerInfo] Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM 1.5.0_03-b07,Sun Microsystems Inc.
00:19:27,562 INFO [ServerInfo] OS-System: Linux 2.4.20-8,i386
00:19:28,756 INFO [Server] Core system initialized
00:19:34,258 INFO [Log4jService$URLWatchTimerTask] Configuring from URL: resource:log4j.xml
00:20:10,471 INFO [WebService] Using RMI server codebase: http://localhost.localdomain:8083/
00:20:17,084 INFO [MailService] Mail Service bound to java:/Mail
00:20:17,838 INFO [NamingService] Started jndi bootstrap jnpPort=1099, rmiPort=1098, backlog=50, bindAddress=/0.0.0.0, Client SocketFactory=null, Server SocketFactory=org.jboss.net.sockets.DefaultSocketFactory@ad093076
00:20:20,123 INFO [Embedded] Catalina naming disabled
00:20:21,220 INFO [Http11Protocol] Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-0.0.0.0-8080
00:20:21,228 INFO [Catalina] Initialization processed in 865 ms
00:20:21,231 INFO [StandardService] Starting service jboss.web
00:20:21,242 INFO [StandardEngine] Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/5.5
00:20:21,438 INFO [StandardHost] XML validation disabled
00:20:21,506 INFO [Catalina] Server startup in 278 ms
00:20:21,835 INFO [TomcatDeployer] deploy, ctxPath=/invoker, warUrl=.../deploy/http-invoker.sar/invoker.war/
00:20:23,211 INFO [WebappLoader] Dual registration of jndi stream handler: factory already defined
00:20:24,820 INFO [TomcatDeployer] deploy, ctxPath=/ws4ee, warUrl=.../tmp/deploy/tmp29533jboss-ws4ee.war/
00:20:25,232 INFO [TomcatDeployer] deploy, ctxPath=/, warUrl=.../deploy/jbossweb-tomcat55.sar/ROOT.war/
00:20:25,528 INFO [TomcatDeployer] deploy, ctxPath=/jbossmq-httpil, warUrl=.../deploy/jms/jbossmq-httpil.sar/jbossmq-httpil.war/
00:20:25,850 INFO [TomcatDeployer] deploy, ctxPath=/web-console, warUrl=.../deploy/management/console-mgr.sar/web-console.war/
00:20:31,166 INFO [RARDeployment] Required license terms exist, view META-INF/ra.xml in .../deploy/jboss-ha-local-jdbc.rar
00:20:31,426 INFO [RARDeployment] Required license terms exist, view META-INF/ra.xml in .../deploy/jboss-ha-xa-jdbc.rar
00:20:31,774 INFO [RARDeployment] Required license terms exist, view META-INF/ra.xml in .../deploy/jboss-local-jdbc.rar
00:20:32,046 INFO [RARDeployment] Required license terms exist, view META-INF/ra.xml in .../deploy/jboss-xa-jdbc.rar
00:20:32,341 INFO [RARDeployment] Required license terms exist, view META-INF/ra.xml in .../deploy/jms/jms-ra.rar
00:20:32,642 INFO [RARDeployment] Required license terms exist, view META-INF/ra.xml in .../deploy/mail-ra.rar