Starting JBoss from Eclipse

Question

Staring JBoss server from within Eclipse Ganymede gives me the following problem: \"Server JBoss v4.0 at localhost was unable to start within 120 seconds. If the server requ

Answer 1

Are yoy runing on Linux? If so, check if jBoss has write privileges over /tmp ...

I had the same problem, and I fixed creating a temp directory with RW privileges to User, Group and others, and adding this line to eclipse.ini

-Djava.io.tmpdir=yourTempDirectory

where your temp directory is the absolute addres of the Temp directory that you created.