From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031026 Firebird/0.7 Description of problem: If server initialization fails you get the error: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/arsdigita/web/DispatcherServlet at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java(Compiled Code)) at java.beans.Beans.instantiate(Beans.java:233) at java.beans.Beans.instantiate(Beans.java:77) when you try to view a page. This is the first error which is returned through log4j. There needs to be some indication that server initialization failed. There should also be a useful message displayed when attempting to view a page. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Rickshaw