On Fri, Feb 14, 2020, 15:05 James H. H. Lampert <jam...@touchtonecorp.com> wrote:
> Ladies and Gentlemen of the Tomcat List: > > We have a situation. > > Earlier today, something (we don't know what) caused the Tomcat (7.0.93) > server on our AS/400 to go crazy, producing a 70G+ catalina.out file, > and rendering the machine generally unresponsive. > > Once I was able to get a terminal session (through a reserved "console" > Ethernet interface), I forcibly shut down the Tomcat server. > > Then, after saving the enormous catalina.out file, I restarted Tomcat, > and it brought up all contexts but the ROOT (which was having > "persistence directory" problems, which I've passed on to our Tomcat > specialists). I tried stopping and restarting that context, with no > change in its behavior. > > But then, I tried shutting down and restarting Tomcat again, and this > time, it comes up, and opens the port, but no contexts start, not even > one that's nothing more than a directory with a static web page in it! > > Anybody here have any idea what could be going wrong? It seems to get > stuck on "Deploying web application archive" > Is this the client install where y'all upgraded the JVM from 1.7 to 1.8? Is there a repeating stack trace in the logs? If yes, what is it? And if you post it, please include the complete stack trace, including any and all "Caused by" entries
