I ran asadmin in verbose mode
[#|2007-11-15T11:24:27.682+1100|INFO|sun-appserver9.1|org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader|_ThreadID=14;_ThreadName=pool-1-thread-5;|validateJarFile(/home/priyananthram/glassfish_new/glassfish/domains/domain1/applications/j2ee-apps/carlo-ear-1.1/carlo-web-1.1_war/WEB-INF/lib/servlet-api-2.5.jar) - jar not loaded. See Servlet Spec 2.3, section 9.7.2. Offending class: javax/servlet/Servlet.class|#]
and after this it sort of hangs...
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