Hi Chris,
I just downloaded a fresh copy from github, ran the maven build and unpacked the tar file to launch cmb via the cmb.sh script. It works fine fro me (see log below) provided you have redis and cassandra properly configured. What exactly are the steps you are taking to run cmb? Are you running via cmb.sh or from within an IDE like Eclipse? Are all the dependent jars available in your classpath?
Example log output for successful launch:
~/Development/cmbbuild/cmb/target/cmb$ ./bin/cmb.sh
config:lib/activation-1.1.jar:lib/aws-java-sdk-1.5.7.jar:lib/cassandra-thrift-1.0.6.jar:lib/cmb-2.2.37.jar:lib/commons-codec-1.6.jar:lib/commons-collections-3.2.1.jar:lib/commons-lang-2.4.jar:lib/commons-logging-1.1.1.jar:lib/commons-pool-1.5.3.jar:lib/ezmorph-1.0.6.jar:lib/google-collections-1.0.jar:lib/guava-r09.jar:lib/hamcrest-core-1.1.jar:lib/hector-core-1.0-5.jar:lib/httpasyncclient-4.0-beta3.jar:lib/httpclient-4.2.2.jar:lib/httpclient-cache-4.2.2.jar:lib/httpcore-4.2.3.jar:lib/httpcore-nio-4.2.3.jar:lib/httpmime-4.2.2.jar:lib/jackson-annotations-2.1.1.jar:lib/jackson-core-2.1.2.jar:lib/jackson-core-asl-1.4.3.jar:lib/jackson-databind-2.1.2.jar:lib/jackson-mapper-asl-1.5.1.jar:lib/javax.servlet-3.0.0.v201112011016.jar:lib/jcommon-1.0.16.jar:lib/jedis-2.1.0.jar:lib/jetty-continuation-8.1.10.v20130312.jar:lib/jetty-http-8.1.10.v20130312.jar:lib/jetty-io-8.1.10.v20130312.jar:lib/jetty-security-8.1.10.v20130312.jar:lib/jetty-server-8.1.10.v20130312.jar:lib/jetty-servlet-8.1.10.v20130312.jar:lib/jetty-util-8.1.10.v20130312.jar:lib/jetty-webapp-8.1.10.v20130312.jar:lib/jetty-xml-8.1.10.v20130312.jar:lib/jfreechart-1.0.13.jar:lib/jolokia-core-1.1.3.jar:lib/jolokia-jvm-1.1.3-agent.jar:lib/json-20090211.jar:lib/json-simple-1.1.jar:lib/junit-4.9.jar:lib/libthrift-0.6.1.jar:lib/log4j-1.2.16.jar:lib/mail-1.4.3.jar:lib/netty-3.2.7.Final.jar:lib/servlet-api-2.5.jar:lib/slf4j-api-1.7.2.jar:lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.7.2.jar:lib/speed4j-0.9.jar:lib/stax-1.2.0.jar:lib/stax-api-1.0.1.jar:lib/tools.jar:lib/uuid-3.2.0.jar:lib/xercesImpl-2.10.0.jar:lib/xml-apis-1.4.01.jar
INFO: No access restrictor found, access to all MBean is allowed
Jolokia: Agent started with URL
http://localhost:7777/jolokia/2013-10-04 11:45:16,256 [CACSVLO-12805.local] [main] [8011f513-b486-4a05-85dd-e9c08f01a7af] INFO CMBProperties - event=loading_cmb_properties file=/Users/bwolf200/Development/cmbbuild/cmb/target/cmb/./config/cmb.properties
2013-10-04 11:45:16,265 [CACSVLO-12805.local] [main] [8011f513-b486-4a05-85dd-e9c08f01a7af] INFO Util - event=init_log4j file=./config/log4j.properties
2013-10-04 11:45:16,430 [CACSVLO-12805.local] [main] [8011f513-b486-4a05-85dd-e9c08f01a7af] INFO Server - jetty-8.1.10.v20130312
2013-10-04 11:45:16,640 [CACSVLO-12805.local] [main] [8011f513-b486-4a05-85dd-e9c08f01a7af] INFO StandardDescriptorProcessor - NO JSP Support for /, did not find org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet
2013-10-04 11:45:16,739 [CACSVLO-12805.local] [main] [8011f513-b486-4a05-85dd-e9c08f01a7af] INFO AbstractConnector - Started
SelectChann...@0.0.0.0:60592013-10-04 11:45:16,739 [CACSVLO-12805.local] [main] [8011f513-b486-4a05-85dd-e9c08f01a7af] INFO CMB - event=launched_cqs_service_endpoint port=6059 max_request_length=524288
2013-10-04 11:45:16,779 [CACSVLO-12805.local] [main] [8011f513-b486-4a05-85dd-e9c08f01a7af] INFO CassandraHostRetryService - Downed Host Retry service started with queue size -1 and retry delay 10s
2013-10-04 11:45:16,800 [CACSVLO-12805.local] [main] [8011f513-b486-4a05-85dd-e9c08f01a7af] INFO JmxMonitor - Registering JMX me.prettyprint.cassandra.service_cmb:ServiceType=hector,MonitorType=hector
2013-10-04 11:45:16,807 [CACSVLO-12805.local] [main] [8011f513-b486-4a05-85dd-e9c08f01a7af] INFO CQSControllerServlet - event=ping version=2.2.37 ip=172.20.4.206 port=6059
2013-10-04 11:45:16,902 [CACSVLO-12805.local] [main] [8011f513-b486-4a05-85dd-e9c08f01a7af] INFO CQSLongPollReceiver - event=longpoll_receiver_service_listening port=5555
2013-10-04 11:45:16,909 [CACSVLO-12805.local] [main] [8011f513-b486-4a05-85dd-e9c08f01a7af] INFO CQSLongPollSender - event=longpoll_sender_service_initialized
2013-10-04 11:45:16,909 [CACSVLO-12805.local] [Thread-16] [8f900ddb-054b-48ac-aacf-77f284a66956] INFO CQSLongPollSender$LongPollSenderThread - event=reloading_active_cqs_api_server_list
2013-10-04 11:45:16,909 [CACSVLO-12805.local] [main] [8011f513-b486-4a05-85dd-e9c08f01a7af] INFO Server - jetty-8.1.10.v20130312
2013-10-04 11:45:16,936 [CACSVLO-12805.local] [main] [8011f513-b486-4a05-85dd-e9c08f01a7af] INFO StandardDescriptorProcessor - NO JSP Support for /, did not find org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet
2013-10-04 11:45:16,952 [CACSVLO-12805.local] [main] [8011f513-b486-4a05-85dd-e9c08f01a7af] INFO AbstractConnector - Started
SelectChann...@0.0.0.0:60612013-10-04 11:45:16,952 [CACSVLO-12805.local] [main] [8011f513-b486-4a05-85dd-e9c08f01a7af] INFO CMB - event=launched_cns_service_endpoint port=6061 max_request_length=524288
2013-10-04 11:45:16,954 [CACSVLO-12805.local] [main] [8011f513-b486-4a05-85dd-e9c08f01a7af] INFO CNSPublisher - event=startup version=2.2.37 ip=172.20.4.206 io_mode=SYNC
2013-10-04 11:45:16,954 [CACSVLO-12805.local] [main] [8011f513-b486-4a05-85dd-e9c08f01a7af] INFO CNSPublisher - modes=[Producer, Consumer]
2013-10-04 11:45:16,990 [CACSVLO-12805.local] [main] [8011f513-b486-4a05-85dd-e9c08f01a7af] INFO RedisCachedCassandraPersistence - event=initialize_redis
2013-10-04 11:45:17,002 [CACSVLO-12805.local] [main] [8011f513-b486-4a05-85dd-e9c08f01a7af] INFO RedisCachedCassandraPersistence - event=initialize_redis pools_size=1 max_active=100 server_list=localhost:6379
2013-10-04 11:45:17,201 [CACSVLO-12805.local] [main] [8011f513-b486-4a05-85dd-e9c08f01a7af] INFO CNSEndpointPublisherJobProducer - event=initialize