Hi,
I'm running tomcat 5.0.30 on two machines A and B (Linux RHAS3). When tomcat A restarts it fails to sync session state with "session state not received" or something to that effect and tomcat B logs this message: 11 Feb 2005 17:21:49 [org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.TcpReplicationThread[4]] ERROR org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.SimpleTcpReplicationManager - Unable to receive message through TCP channel java.lang.ClassCastException at org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.SimpleTcpReplicationManager.messageR eceived(SimpleTcpReplicationManager.java:530) at org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.SimpleTcpReplicationManager.messageD ataReceived(SimpleTcpReplicationManager.java:596) at org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.SimpleTcpCluster.messageDataReceived(Sim pleTcpCluster.java:580) at org.apache.catalina.cluster.io.ObjectReader.execute(ObjectReader.java:70 ) at org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.TcpReplicationThread.drainChannel(TcpRep licationThread.java:129) at org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.TcpReplicationThread.run(TcpReplicationT hread.java:67) I changed SimpleTcpReplicationManager to output class names of the sessions it is trying to cast to ReplicatedSession and got the following picture: 11 Feb 2005 17:21:44 [Cluster-MembershipReceiver] INFO org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.SimpleTcpCluster - Replication member added:org.apache.catalina.cluster.mcast.McastMember[tcp://192.168.56.21: 4001,192.168.56.21,4001, alive=3] 11 Feb 2005 17:21:49 [org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.TcpReplicationThread[4]] INFO org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.SimpleTcpReplicationManager - SessionClass=org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.ReplicatedSession 11 Feb 2005 17:21:49 [org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.TcpReplicationThread[4]] INFO org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.SimpleTcpReplicationManager - SessionClass=org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.ReplicatedSession 11 Feb 2005 17:21:49 [org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.TcpReplicationThread[4]] INFO org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.SimpleTcpReplicationManager - SessionClass=org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.ReplicatedSession 11 Feb 2005 17:21:49 [org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.TcpReplicationThread[4]] INFO org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.SimpleTcpReplicationManager - SessionClass=org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.ReplicatedSession 11 Feb 2005 17:21:49 [org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.TcpReplicationThread[4]] INFO org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.SimpleTcpReplicationManager - SessionClass=org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.ReplicatedSession 11 Feb 2005 17:21:49 [org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.TcpReplicationThread[4]] INFO org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.SimpleTcpReplicationManager - SessionClass=org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.ReplicatedSession 11 Feb 2005 17:21:49 [org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.TcpReplicationThread[4]] INFO org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.SimpleTcpReplicationManager - SessionClass=org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.ReplicatedSession 11 Feb 2005 17:21:49 [org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.TcpReplicationThread[4]] INFO org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.SimpleTcpReplicationManager - SessionClass=org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.ReplicatedSession 11 Feb 2005 17:21:49 [org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.TcpReplicationThread[4]] INFO org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.SimpleTcpReplicationManager - SessionClass=org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.ReplicatedSession 11 Feb 2005 17:21:49 [org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.TcpReplicationThread[4]] INFO org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.SimpleTcpReplicationManager - SessionClass=org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.ReplicatedSession 11 Feb 2005 17:21:49 [org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.TcpReplicationThread[4]] INFO org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.SimpleTcpReplicationManager - SessionClass=org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.ReplicatedSession 11 Feb 2005 17:21:49 [org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.TcpReplicationThread[4]] INFO org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.SimpleTcpReplicationManager - SessionClass=org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.ReplicatedSession 11 Feb 2005 17:21:49 [org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.TcpReplicationThread[4]] INFO org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.SimpleTcpReplicationManager - SessionClass=org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.ReplicatedSession 11 Feb 2005 17:21:49 [org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.TcpReplicationThread[4]] INFO org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.SimpleTcpReplicationManager - SessionClass=org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.ReplicatedSession 11 Feb 2005 17:21:49 [org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.TcpReplicationThread[4]] INFO org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.SimpleTcpReplicationManager - SessionClass=org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.ReplicatedSession 11 Feb 2005 17:21:49 [org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.TcpReplicationThread[4]] INFO org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.SimpleTcpReplicationManager - SessionClass=org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.ReplicatedSession 11 Feb 2005 17:21:49 [org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.TcpReplicationThread[4]] INFO org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.SimpleTcpReplicationManager - SessionClass=org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.ReplicatedSession 11 Feb 2005 17:21:49 [org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.TcpReplicationThread[4]] INFO org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.SimpleTcpReplicationManager - SessionClass=org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.ReplicatedSession 11 Feb 2005 17:21:49 [org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.TcpReplicationThread[4]] INFO org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.SimpleTcpReplicationManager - SessionClass=org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.ReplicatedSession 11 Feb 2005 17:21:49 [org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.TcpReplicationThread[4]] INFO org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.SimpleTcpReplicationManager - SessionClass=org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.ReplicatedSession 11 Feb 2005 17:21:49 [org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.TcpReplicationThread[4]] INFO org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.SimpleTcpReplicationManager - SessionClass=org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.ReplicatedSession 11 Feb 2005 17:21:49 [org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.TcpReplicationThread[4]] INFO org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.SimpleTcpReplicationManager - SessionClass=org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.ReplicatedSession 11 Feb 2005 17:21:49 [org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.TcpReplicationThread[4]] INFO org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.SimpleTcpReplicationManager - SessionClass=org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.ReplicatedSession 11 Feb 2005 17:21:49 [org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.TcpReplicationThread[4]] INFO org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.SimpleTcpReplicationManager - SessionClass=org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.ReplicatedSession 11 Feb 2005 17:21:49 [org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.TcpReplicationThread[4]] INFO org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.SimpleTcpReplicationManager - SessionClass=org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.ReplicatedSession 11 Feb 2005 17:21:49 [org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.TcpReplicationThread[4]] INFO org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.SimpleTcpReplicationManager - SessionClass=org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.ReplicatedSession 11 Feb 2005 17:21:49 [org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.TcpReplicationThread[4]] INFO org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.SimpleTcpReplicationManager - SessionClass=org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.ReplicatedSession 11 Feb 2005 17:21:49 [org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.TcpReplicationThread[4]] INFO org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.SimpleTcpReplicationManager - SessionClass=org.apache.catalina.session.StandardSession 11 Feb 2005 17:21:49 [org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.TcpReplicationThread[4]] ERROR org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.SimpleTcpReplicationManager - Unable to receive message through TCP channel java.lang.ClassCastException at org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.SimpleTcpReplicationManager.messageR eceived(SimpleTcpReplicationManager.java:530) at org.apache.catalina.cluster.session.SimpleTcpReplicationManager.messageD ataReceived(SimpleTcpReplicationManager.java:596) at org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.SimpleTcpCluster.messageDataReceived(Sim pleTcpCluster.java:580) at org.apache.catalina.cluster.io.ObjectReader.execute(ObjectReader.java:70 ) at org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.TcpReplicationThread.drainChannel(TcpRep licationThread.java:129) at org.apache.catalina.cluster.tcp.TcpReplicationThread.run(TcpReplicationT hread.java:67) How come a clustered application would have sessions of type org.apache.catalina.session.StandardSession? Does anyone have any ideas? Regards, Vlad ******************************************************************************** The information contained in this email message may be confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, interference with, disclosure or copying of this material is unauthorised and prohibited. Although this message and any attachments are believed to be free of viruses, no responsibility is accepted by T&F Informa for any loss or damage arising in any way from receipt or use thereof. Messages to and from the company are monitored for operational reasons and in accordance with lawful business practices. If you have received this message in error, please notify us by return and delete the message and any attachments. Further enquiries/returns can be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]