I BELIEVE that is due to some incorrect commenting in your server.xml file. I had this problem once and I thats what caused it.
Double check your server.xml file. --- Henri Gomez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While working on 4.1.2 rpms I noticed the following > error at startup : > > 4732 [main] INFO modeler.Registry - Creating > MBeanServer > 5705 [main] INFO http11.Http11Protocol - > Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 > on port 8080 > Starting service Tomcat-Standalone > Apache Tomcat/4.1 > 7324 [main] ERROR digester.Digester - Parse Fatal > Error at line 307 > column 39: The string "--" is not permitted within > comments. > org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The string "--" is > not permitted within > comments. > at > org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(Unknown > > Source) > at > org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(Unknown > Source) > at > org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown > Source) > at > org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown > Source) > at > org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLScanner.reportFatalError(Unknown > Source) > at > org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLScanner.scanComment(Unknown > Source) > at > org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDTDScannerImpl.scanComment(Unknown > Source) > at > org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDTDScannerImpl.scanDecls(Unknown > Source) > at > org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDTDScannerImpl.scanDTDExternalSubset(Unknown > > Source) > at > org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$DTDDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown > > Source) > at > org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown > > Source) > at > org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(Unknown > Source) > at > org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(Unknown > Source) > at > org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown > Source) > at > org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown > Source) > at > org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1514) > at > org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.tldScanStream(ContextConfig.java:977) > at > org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.tldScanTld(ContextConfig.java:1006) > at > org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.tldScan(ContextConfig.java:870) > at > org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.start(ContextConfig.java:647) > at > org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java:243) > at > org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:166) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3493) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1188) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:738) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1188) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:347) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:497) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:2189) > at > org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:510) > at > org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.execute(Catalina.java:400) > at > org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.process(Catalina.java:180) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) > at > org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:203) > 8720 [main] ERROR digester.Digester - Parse Fatal > Error at line 307 > column 39: The string "--" is not permitted within > comments. > org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The string "--" is > not permitted within > comments. > at > org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(Unknown > > Source) > at > org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(Unknown > Source) > > > > Admin log show me the following error : > > 2002-10-02 13:29:01 WebappLoader[/admin]: Deploying > class repositories > to work directory > /var/tomcat4/work/Standalone/localhost/admin > 2002-10-02 13:29:01 WebappLoader[/admin]: Deploy > class files > /WEB-INF/classes to > /var/tomcat4/webapps/../server/webapps/admin/WEB-INF/classes > 2002-10-02 13:29:01 WebappLoader[/admin]: Deploy JAR > > /WEB-INF/lib/struts.jar to > /var/tomcat4/webapps/../server/webapps/admin/WEB-INF/lib/struts.jar > 2002-10-02 13:29:02 ContextConfig[/admin] Exception > processing TLD at > resource path /WEB-INF/controls.tld > javax.servlet.ServletException: Exception processing > TLD at resource > path /WEB-INF/controls.tld > at > org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.tldScanTld(ContextConfig.java:1010) > at > org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.tldScan(ContextConfig.java:870) > at > org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.start(ContextConfig.java:647) > at > org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java:243) > at > org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:166) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3493) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:821) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:807) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:579) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer.addChild(StandardHostDeployer.java:529) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native > Method) > at > org.apache.commons.beanutils.MethodUtils.invokeMethod(MethodUtils.java) > at > org.apache.commons.digester.SetNextRule.end(SetNextRule.java:260) > at > org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.endElement(Digester.java(Compiled > > Code)) > at > org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(Unknown > Source) > at > org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(Unknown > > Source) > at > org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown > > Source) > at > org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown > > Source) > at > org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(Unknown > Source) > at > org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(Unknown > Source) > at > org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown > Source) > at > org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown > > Source) > at > org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1514) > at > === message truncated === ===== ------------------------ int myName() { cout << "-Matt Fury \n"; return 0; } ------------------------ __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? 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