After adding
<gbean name="DirectoryLog4jConfiguration" class="org.apache.geronimo.system.logging.log4j.ApplicationLog4jConfigurationGBean"> <attribute name="log4jResource">META-INF/log4j.properties</attribute> </gbean> to my geronimo-ra.xml, I get the following exception 16:25:37,156 ERROR [GBeanInstanceState] Error while starting; GBean is now in the FAILED state: abstractName="com.scort.demos/vscics/1.0/ear?J2EEApplication=com.scort.demos/vscics/1.0/ear,j2eeType=SystemLog,name=DirectoryLog4jConfiguration" java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.geronimo.system.logging.log4j.ApplicationLog4jConfigurationGBean.<init>(ApplicationLog4jConfigurationGBean.java:52) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:494) at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstance.createInstance(GBeanInstance.java:948) at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstanceState.attemptFullStart(GBeanInstanceState.java:268) at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstanceState.start(GBeanInstanceState.java:102) at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstanceState.startRecursive(GBeanInstanceState.java:124) at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstance.startRecursive(GBeanInstance.java:555) at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.BasicKernel.startRecursiveGBean(BasicKernel.java:379) at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.ConfigurationUtil.startConfigurationGBeans(ConfigurationUtil.java:456) at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.KernelConfigurationManager.start(KernelConfigurationManager.java:188) at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.SimpleConfigurationManager.startConfiguration(SimpleConfigurationManager.java:562) at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.SimpleConfigurationManager.startConfiguration(SimpleConfigurationManager.java:543) 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:585) at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.ReflectionMethodInvoker.invoke(ReflectionMethodInvoker.java:34) at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanOperation.invoke(GBeanOperation.java:124) at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstance.invoke(GBeanInstance.java:832) at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.RawInvoker.invoke(RawInvoker.java:57) at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.RawOperationInvoker.invoke(RawOperationInvoker.java:35) at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.ProxyMethodInterceptor.intercept(ProxyMethodInterceptor.java:96) at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.EditableConfigurationManager$$EnhancerByCGLIB$$df9048d.startConfiguration(<generated>) at org.apache.geronimo.deployment.plugin.local.StartCommand.run(StartCommand.java:67) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)