Below is the error from the log that i see after starting the service... can you help resolving this issue.
2013-08-22 10:35:37,111 | DEBUG | l Console Threa
The current aries jpa container jar 1.0.0 has a bug that makes it swallow exceptions on creating the EntityManager. A colleague of me opened the aries bug: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARIES-1160
I created a second patch that can be applied to the 1.0.0 sources to create a jar that correctly logs the exception. Check out the 1.0.0 tag of aries jpa container, apply the patch and build.
When you then run in karaf you should see the real source of the error.