error on createdb

hi keel-users

i'm currently working through your quickstart-manual and have some 
problems (keel-newbie).

first of all, the tests doesn't run because it can't create a 
"junit"-task. is there a jar-file missing in ant's lib-dir?

however, this doesn't seem to affect the tomcat-start, because this runs 
well and i also get the startpage (/default) in my browser.

but if i then try to call the create-db-url like suggested in the 
quickstart, i receive an exception (see below) thats already mentioned 
in this mailinglist, but has no replies.

can anybody help me with this???

thanks and greetings
stefan

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the exception is:
org.keel.services.model.ModelException: null, [KeelStarter] :Channel 
timed out waiting for response
	org.keel.clients.direct.KeelClientDirect.execute(KeelClientDirect.java:70)
	org.keel.clients.AbstractClientConnector.execute(AbstractClientConnector.java:59)
	org.keel.clients.webapp.AbstractWebappClientConnector.execute(AbstractWebappClientConnector.java:73)
	org.keel.clients.struts.StrutsClientConnector.execute(StrutsClientConnector.java:106)
	org.keel.clients.struts.ModelAction.execute(ModelAction.java:70)
	org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processActionPerform(RequestProcessor.java:484)
	org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:274)
	org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1482)
	org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doGet(ActionServlet.java:507)
	javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:689)
	javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)