Recently when trying to run JBoss on PCLinuxOS, I keep getting the "Exception creating identity" error which terminates JBoss immediately. While suspecting the fact that there is no DNS server running in my LAN could be the culprit, I couldn't figure out how and where to solve this.
So I tried a somewhat hack-ish solution : the /etc/hosts file. It's been a while since I edit one of these. Anyway the hack was to add the name of the identity which JBoss said it can't refer to, meaning if JBoss' log says the following :
Exception creating identity dhcpp01
Then edit your /etc/hosts file as follows :
127.0.0.1 localhost dhcppc1
From herein, JBoss will start normally.
