Add a portlet application for deployment to a GateIn 3.6 Server and then start the server. The server seems to terminate after a couple of seconds. The exact steps to reproduce can be seen in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlF_Zplq7WQ Only cca. the first 5 minutes are important.

The condition which seems to trigger this issue seems to be to start the server & deploy an app at the same time. Both things work when done separately: Start the server without deployments and then, when it is up and running, one can add a portlet app which deploys correctly.