If your Glassfish v2.1 won't start and the problem persists, there is probably a problem with your embedded JMS broker. I found in my logfiles the following hint:
[#|2010-01-14T10:27:36.227+0100|SEVERE|sun-appserver9.1|javax.enterprise.resource.resourceadapter|_ThreadID=10;_ThreadName=main;_RequestID=e2ff9fe6-ceb2-4436-bc22-5b88ed5dd49b;|RAR6035 : Resource adapter start failed : {0}
javax.resource.spi.ResourceAdapterInternalException: MQJMSRA_RA4001: start:Aborting:Exception starting EMBEDDED broker=EMBEDDED Broker start failure:code = 1
at com.sun.messaging.jms.ra.ResourceAdapter.start(ResourceAdapter.java:476)
at com.sun.enterprise.connectors.ActiveInboundResourceAdapter$1.run(ActiveInboundResourceAdapter.java:135)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at com.sun.enterprise.connectors.ActiveInboundResourceAdapter.(ActiveInboundResourceAdapter.java:131)
at com.sun.enterprise.connectors.system.ActiveJmsResourceAdapter.(ActiveJmsResourceAdapter.java:247)
at com.sun.enterprise.connectors.ActiveRAFactory.createActiveResourceAdapter(ActiveRAFactory.java:107)
at com.sun.enterprise.connectors.ResourceAdapterAdminServiceImpl.createActiveResourceAdapter(ResourceAdapterAdminServiceImpl.java:300)
at com.sun.enterprise.connectors.ResourceAdapterAdminServiceImpl.createActiveResourceAdapter(ResourceAdapterAdminServiceImpl.java:445)
at com.sun.enterprise.connectors.ConnectorRuntime.createActiveResourceAdapter(ConnectorRuntime.java:224)
at com.sun.enterprise.jms.JmsProviderLifecycle.onStartup(JmsProviderLifecycle.java:428)
at com.sun.enterprise.server.ApplicationServer.onStartup(ApplicationServer.java:442)
at com.sun.enterprise.server.ondemand.OnDemandServer.onStartup(OnDemandServer.java:120)
at com.sun.enterprise.server.PEMain.run(PEMain.java:411)
at com.sun.enterprise.server.PEMain.main(PEMain.java:338)
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:597)
at com.sun.enterprise.server.PELaunch.main(PELaunch.java:412)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: EMBEDDED Broker start failure:code = 1
at com.sun.messaging.jms.ra.EmbeddedBrokerRunner.start(EmbeddedBrokerRunner.java:268)
at com.sun.messaging.jms.ra.ResourceAdapter.start(ResourceAdapter.java:472)
... 18 more
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The solution is simple: removal of the glassfish-v2/domains/domain1/imq/instances/imqbroker/lock file and restart the server.
The cause of the problem is frequent change of the ipadress and booting glassfish without network on linux.