Six tests under org.jboss.test.exception.EntityExceptionUnitTestCase. All fail with the following error

Error, bean instance was discarded!
javax.ejb.FinderException: Error, bean instance was discarded!
at org.jboss.test.exception.EntityExceptionTesterBean.ejbFindByPrimaryKey(EntityExceptionTesterBean.java:59)
at jrockit.reflect.VirtualNativeMethodInvoker.invoke(Ljava.lang.Object;[Ljava.lang.Object;)Ljava.lang.Object;(Unknown Source)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.BMPPersistenceManager.callFinderMethod(BMPPersistenceManager.java:632)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.BMPPersistenceManager.findEntity(BMPPersistenceManager.java:316)
at org.jboss.resource.connectionmanager.CachedConnectionInterceptor.findEntity(CachedConnectionInterceptor.java:236)
at org.jboss.ejb.EntityContainer.findSingleObject(EntityContainer

On the server log, I see following for the first error in test suite.

2006-08-08 10:09:46,581 DEBUG [org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer] Deployed package: file:/home/pjha/qa/405CR1/jboss405CR1/testsuite/output/lib/exception.jar
2006-08-08 10:09:47,003 DEBUG [org.jboss.ejb.StatelessSessionContainer] Useless invocation of remove() for stateless session bean
2006-08-08 10:09:47,150 ERROR [org.jboss.ejb.plugins.LogInterceptor] RuntimeException in method: public abstract void org.jboss.test.exception.EntityExcepti\
onTesterLocal.runtimeExceptionNoTx():
java.lang.RuntimeException: Runtime exception without a transaction
at org.jboss.test.exception.EntityExceptionTesterBean.runtimeExceptionNoTx(EntityExceptionTesterBean.java:168)
at jrockit.reflect.VirtualNativeMethodInvoker.invoke(Ljava.lang.Object;[Ljava.lang.Object;)Ljava.lang.Object;(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Ljava.lang.Object;[Ljava.lang.Object;I)Ljava.lang.Object;(Unknown Source)
at org.jboss.invocation.Invocation.performCall(Invocation.java:359)
at org.jboss.ejb.EntityContainer$ContainerInterceptor.invoke(EntityContainer.java:1187)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.EntitySynchronizationInterceptor.invoke(EntitySynchronizationInterceptor.java:338)
at org.jboss.resource.connectionmanager.CachedConnectionInterceptor.invoke(CachedConnectionInterceptor.java:158)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.EntityReentranceInterceptor.invoke(EntityReentranceInterceptor.java:126)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.EntityInstanceInterceptor.invoke(EntityInstanceInterceptor.java:276)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.EntityLockInterceptor.invoke(EntityLockInterceptor.java:104)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.EntityCreationInterceptor.invoke(EntityCreationInterceptor.java:68)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.CallValidationInterceptor.invoke(CallValidationInterceptor.java:63)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.AbstractTxInterceptor.invokeNext(AbstractTxInterceptor.java:121)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.TxInterceptorCMT.runWithTransactions(TxInterceptorCMT.java:315)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.TxInterceptorCMT.invoke(TxInterceptorCMT.java:181)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.SecurityInterceptor.invoke(SecurityInterceptor.java:168)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.LogInterceptor.invoke(LogInterceptor.java:205)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.ProxyFactoryFinderInterceptor.invoke(ProxyFactoryFinderInterceptor.java:136)
at org.jboss.ejb.EntityContainer.internalInvoke(EntityContainer.java:527)
at org.jboss.ejb.Container.invoke(Container.java:954)