start tomcat: socket closed exception

[Benjamin Stocker]

Hy,

i tried to start tomcat on a suse70 linux server, i use the following
versions:

  jdk 1.1.8v1
  jakarta-3.1-29
  kernel 2.2.16

when I start tomcat using /opt/jakarta/bin/startup.sh, I get the following
messages and everything seems to be ok:

Guessing TOMCAT_HOME from tomcat.sh to ./..
Setting TOMCAT_HOME to ./..
Using classpath:
.:./../lib/ant.jar:./../lib/jasper.jar:./../lib/servlet.jar:./../lib/test:./../lib/webserver.jar:./../lib/xml.jar
inuit:/opt/jakarta/bin # Starting tomcat. Check logs/tomcat.log for error
messages

but after 5 (or 6...) seconds, tomcat crashes:

java.net.SocketException: Socket closed
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.close(PlainSocketImpl.java:408)
        at java.net.Socket.close(Socket.java:383)
[...]

the socket 8080 is free and tomcat is not already running. I searched all
archives and found many peoples having the same problem, but unfortunately no
answers. I even can find no helpful informations in the logfiles.

Any help will be greatfully appreciated!
Benjamin