When I tried to run it from the console using "jrun -start coldfusion", I saw the following error laughing at me.
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
Caused by: java.security.AccessControlException: access denied (java.util.PropertyPermission jrun.home read)
at java.security.AccessControlContext.checkPermission(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.checkPermission(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPermission(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPropertyAccess(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.System.getProperty(Unknown Source)
at jrunx.kernel.JRun.(JRun.java:52)
It was spooky as I could see that the policy file has all permission and the JVM was complaining that the JRun process does not have the permission to read jrun.home property.
I was going bonkers before I realized that policy file was not getting picked up in the first place.
Finally it turned out that some test setup had messed around with the jvm.config file and misplaced some quotes. java.args in this file looked like
java.args=-server -XX:MaxPermSize=128m -Xmx512m -Dsun.io.useCanonCaches=false
-Dcoldfusion.classPath={application.home}/../lib/updates,{application.home}/../lib/,{application.home}/../gateway/lib/,{application.home}/../wwwroot/WEB-INF/cfform/jars
-Dcoldfusion.libPath={application.home}/../lib
-Dcoldfusion.rootDir={application.home}/../ -Djava.security.manager
-Djava.security.policy="C:/CF/lib/coldfusion.policy"
-Djava.security.auth.policy="C:/CF/lib/neo_jaas.policy"
where it should have been like
java.args=-server -XX:MaxPermSize=128m -Xmx512m -Dsun.io.useCanonCaches=false
-Dcoldfusion.classPath={application.home}/../lib/updates,{application.home}/../lib/,{application.home}/../gateway/lib/,{application.home}/../wwwroot/WEB-INF/cfform/jars
-Dcoldfusion.libPath={application.home}/../lib
-Dcoldfusion.rootDir={application.home}/../ -Djava.security.manager
"-Djava.security.policy=C:/CF/lib/coldfusion.policy"
"-Djava.security.auth.policy=C:/CF/lib/neo_jaas.policy"
So in case you are touching jvm.config file (Ideally you should not), take extra care about the quotes.
