Solution (was Re: Tomcat 4.0.2 Fails to Start)

[Bradley G Smith/R6/USDAFS]

The problem turned out to be missing jars. The installation was done using
Henri's rpm-based install. Somehow the symlinks to xerces, regexp, and the
servletapi were not placed in the proper tomcat4 directories. Once I did
these manually, the following error disappeared. I also found that I needed
to add a link to tools.jar in ../tomcat4/common/lib for JSP's to work.

Brad Smith





                                                                                       
            
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I installed the recent tomcat 4.0.2 rpms on a system which had a
functioning tomcat 4.0.1 system (also installed from rpms). When I tried to
restart tomcat I get the following error:

Using CATALINA_BASE:   /var/tomcat4
Using CATALINA_HOME:   /var/tomcat4
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /var/tomcat4/temp
Using JAVA_HOME:       /opt/IBMJava2-13
Using CLASSPATH:
:/opt/IBMJava2-13/jre/lib/rt.jar:/var/tomcat4/bin/bootstrap.jar
Bootstrap: Class loader creation threw exception
java.util.zip.ZipException: No such file or directory
        at java.util.zip.ZipFile.open(Native Method)
        at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:111)
        at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(JarFile.java:121)
        at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(JarFile.java:88)
        at
org.apache.catalina.startup.ClassLoaderFactory.validateJarFile(ClassLoaderFactory.java:319)

        at
org.apache.catalina.startup.ClassLoaderFactory.createClassLoader(ClassLoaderFactory.java:242)

        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:144)

Something changed and after spending most of a day trying various options,
I have not been successful at finding a solution. Can someone suggest a
fix? Or the correct paragraph in the documentation to read? Or even the
correct document?

Thanks,

Brad Smith



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