JBoss fails to start due to a NoClassDefFoundError for BaseServerConfig

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Issue

  • I am installing Jboss EAP 5.1 on new system and it gives the following error message:
  • JBoss fails to start due to the following error:

    Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/jboss/bootstrap/BaseServerConfig
        at org.jboss.bootstrap.AbstractServerImpl.doInit(AbstractServerImpl.java:190)
        at org.jboss.bootstrap.AbstractServerImpl.init(AbstractServerImpl.java:173)
        at org.jboss.bootstrap.AbstractServerImpl.init(AbstractServerImpl.java:143)
        at org.jboss.Main.boot(Main.java:218)
        at org.jboss.Main$1.run(Main.java:556)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)
    Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.jboss.bootstrap.BaseServerConfig
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:423)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:356)
        ... 6 more
    

Environment

  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
    • 5.0.x
    • 5.1.x

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