There are at least one or two other issues that break tomcat in this release, at least one of which I believe is unrelated to context.xml.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alasdair Gow Sent: Friday, August 13, 2010 5:59 AM To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.i386 Update causing Tomcat not to start. More news from redhat, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=623465 <snip> Confirmed. the problem is related to the existence of a $CAT_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost/context.xml. Any empty context.xml in that specific location will cause the same problem. The same context.xml in /etc/tomcat5/ will not produce the problem. Changing the context path (path="/foo") also produces the problem. </snip> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alasdair Gow Sent: 12 August 2010 13:09 To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.i386 Update causing Tomcat not to start. Perhaps coincidental but I ran a sosreport for redhat (having done many times previously without ill effect) and the server ran yum, installed a kernel and the new version of tomcat5 and then rebooted! Currently waiting on redhat coming back to me. Looking at last and root history I see no reference to any instructions for yum or rebooting. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alasdair Gow Sent: 12 August 2010 12:14 To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.i386 Update causing Tomcat not to start. You got any test boxes to try it out on first? Best bet would be to be prepared to downgrade, I'm in the process of providing red hat with the needed info for them to investigate. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stainforth, Matthew (SD/DS) Sent: 10 August 2010 13:52 To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.i386 Update causing Tomcat not to start. Can somebody from Red Hat comment on this? I have approved this patch to go into our environment this week but I feel like I should postpone. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Aldrey Galindo Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 9:37 AM To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.i386 Update causing Tomcat not to start. I had the same problem, also did downgrade. Aldrey Galindo 2010/8/10 Alasdair Gow <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Hi All, We updated Tomcat5 and a kernel on a server and rebooted, at which point tomcat refused to work correctly. Catalina.out showed this. 06-Aug-2010 16:24:55 org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol init INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080 06-Aug-2010 16:24:55 org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load INFO: Initialization processed in 600 ms 06-Aug-2010 16:24:55 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start INFO: Starting service Catalina 06-Aug-2010 16:24:55 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/5.5.23 06-Aug-2010 16:24:55 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost start INFO: XML validation disabled 06-Aug-2010 16:24:55 org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start SEVERE: Catalina.start: LifecycleException: Error initializaing : java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3986) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1014) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:736) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1014) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:448) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:700) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:552) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:295) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:433) 06-Aug-2010 16:24:55 org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start INFO: Server startup in 102 ms Moving the webapps out the way in case of a code issue and restarting provided the same result. Downgrading to tomcat5 - 5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.i386 and restarting tomcat restored service, but it looks like a problem with that release fo me at least. Any ideas on how to fix? I've not seen any other complaints re this so I don't think it is widespread. I have a case open with RedHat but it is progressing slowly :( Kind regards Alasdair ________________________________ -- This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender. Any offers or quotation of service are subject to formal specification. Errors and omissions excepted. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Lumison. Finally, the recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. 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