The following commands fail when you are running on OpenSuse Linux (10.3):
asadmin create-domain
asadmin create-instance
asadmin node-agent
According to this bug report (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=331680 ), the JDK distributed with OpenSuse causes problems with JXTA (which is the underlying technology of clustering). One way to solve this problem would be to change your JVM.