1. Set up a single master-slave replicated pair using AMQ 7.2.2 2. Unpack and built the attached coreconsume3.zip. This is a stand-alone Java application that just consumers from a broker on thirty separate threads, and rolls back the JMS Session for every message consumed. 3. Edit the hostname, credentials, and queue name if necessary, and run the client 4. Place a message onto the queue __test_destination on the master using any client. You should see the message redelivered several times, and then the broker log will show the message being sent to the DLQ 5. Place 1000 messages onto the queue, each with a header JMSXGroupID=01 (any group ID will be fine, in fact – there just has to be one) 6. Watch the client while all the messages are processed, and sent to the DLQ 7. When the client is idle, repeat the test. In general, I have to repeat two or three times to elicit the failure. When the master fails, it throws out a thread dump and an error message "Timed out waiting for lock on consumer". The slave may promote itself to master but, in my tests, this doesn't always happen. If it does, the master remains capable of accepting client connections, although it doesn't seem to do any work on them.