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Case

Trying to deploy an EAR on JOnAS, I got the following error:

Problems when invoking main method from GenIC: java.lang.RuntimeException: error in fastrmic (null)

More detail:

JOnASEJBService.__checkGenIC : Cannot apply GenIC on the file 'C:\jonathan\jonathan_2012.05.11-13.47.29.ear\jonathan-server.jar' with the args '[-classpath, C:\jonathan\jonathan_2012.05.11-13.47.29.ear\jonathan-server.jar, -protocols, jrmp, -invokecmd]'.
org.ow2.jonas.service.ServiceException : Problems when invoking main method from GenIC: java.lang.RuntimeException: error in fastrmic (null)
        at org.ow2.jonas.generators.genic.wrapper.GenicServiceWrapper.callGenic(GenicServiceWrapper.java:79)
        at org.ow2.jonas.ejb2.internal.JOnASEJBService.__callGenic(JOnASEJBService.java:2017)

Quickfix

Edit $JONAS_BASE/conf/jonas.properties.
The properties jonas.services and jonas.service.ejb2.auto-genic must be consistent.

Especially, if GenIC is enabled (jonas.service.ejb2.auto-genic true), then check ejb2 is among the services pointed at by jonas.services, eg:
jonas.services jtm,db,security,resource,ejb2,web,ear.