Here is a list of issues you may encounter with Petals ESB but that are not bugs.
These problems may be due to a hardware configuration or to operating system restrictions.

Petals is unreacting or freezed

Operating system: Windows (verified on XP and 7)

Symptoms:

• The Petals command line does not display anything new anymore.
• The last lines may be a normal log entry or an exception stack trace.
• JMX commands seems without effect. When you execute them (from the JConsole, from the Petals web console), there is no response.
• Other Petals scripts do not change anything. stop.bat and shutdown.bat do not work.

Solutions to try:

• Go in the Petals command line, give it the focus and type in Enter.

Explainations:
You have probably selected something in the DOS shell (e.g. the JMX URL of Petals).
This selection has blocked the underlying process (Petals). Consequently, all the requests have been waiting for the process to come back. By giving it the focus back (enter), the process is unblocked.