Look further into your tomcat logs, (and all of the logs), and you’ll find something that should explain the startup failure.
-- Misagh From: Toni McWild <[email protected]> Reply: Toni McWild <[email protected]> Date: September 27, 2016 at 11:55:26 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [cas-user] Tomcat 7 to Tomcat 8 doesn't work Hi, We have been using Tomcat 7 with CAS 4.1 and the following configuration in order to start tomcat ( JVM 7 ): 'CATALINA_OPTS=-Duser.timezone=CET -Xms8G -Xmx16G -XX:NewSize=4G -XX:MaxNewSize=8g -XX:MaxPermSize=8G -XX:+DisableExplicitGC -XX:+ExplicitGCInvokesConcurrent -Xloggc:/var/log/tomcat/gc.log' 32G of Physical memory So, when I have tried to set up Tomcat 8 and install the CAS compilation that I have running on tomcat and Java 7 it doesn't work, it allows me to start Tomcat and load CAS, but if I try to stop it and start it again it drops an error: May I change Java configuration? 27-Sep-2016 09:17:23.807 INFO [http-bio-8443-exec-6] org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext.log HTMLManager: start: Starting web application '/cas' 27-Sep-2016 09:17:24.455 SEVERE [http-bio-8443-exec-6] org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext.log FAIL - Application at context path /cas could not be started org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component [StandardEngine[Catalina].StandardHost[localhost].StandardContext[/cas]] at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:153) at org.apache.catalina.manager.ManagerServlet.start(ManagerServlet.java:1293) at org.apache.catalina.manager.HTMLManagerServlet.start(HTMLManagerServlet.java:666) at org.apache.catalina.manager.HTMLManagerServlet.doPost(HTMLManagerServlet.java:217) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:648) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:729) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:292) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:207) at org.apache.catalina.filters.CsrfPreventionFilter.doFilter(CsrfPreventionFilter.java:136) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:240) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:207) at org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:52) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:240) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:207) at org.apache.catalina.filters.SetCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(SetCharacterEncodingFilter.java:108) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:240) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:207) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:212) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:106) at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:614) at org.apache.catalina.valves.RequestFilterValve.process(RequestFilterValve.java:312) at org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteAddrValve.invoke(RemoteAddrValve.java:95) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:141) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:79) at org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:616) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:88) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:522) at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1095) at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:672) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:279) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to complete the scan for annotations for web application [/cas] due to a StackOverflowError. Possible root causes include a too low setting for -Xss and illegal cyclic inheritance dependencies. The class hierarchy being processed was [org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1Boolean->org.bouncycastle.asn1.DERBoolean->org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1Boolean] at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.checkHandlesTypes(ContextConfig.java:2100) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotationsStream(ContextConfig.java:2046) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotationsJar(ContextConfig.java:1991) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotationsUrl(ContextConfig.java:1961) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotations(ContextConfig.java:1915) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.webConfig(ContextConfig.java:1158) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.configureStart(ContextConfig.java:780) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java:305) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:95) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleBase.java:90) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5154) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:147) ... 33 more -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CAS Community" group. 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