Just to clarify- it makes no difference if I actually access the portion of the web application using AWT- in fact, all I have to do is START tomcat and I can no longer telnet in to the box.
In my tomcat setenv.sh file I have set the display variable to talk to Xvfb, i.e. DISPLAY=:1.0 export DISPLAY This is really got me stumped! -Richard ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Sand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 1:19 AM Subject: Xvfb and Tomcat 4.1.18 tripping over each other > Hi all, > > I've got a headless Solaris 8 workstation (Ultra 5) running Tomcat 4.1.18- > my web application does some image manipulation via AWT and renders a GIF to > the client. To do the rendering I had to install the virtual framebuffer > Xvfb. > > What I've found is that immediately after I've accessed the web application, > I can no longer telnet into the machine. All other services are running > fine- ftp, http (apache), tomcat, etc. Telnet answers, but no prompt comes > up, and then a few seconds later it closes the connection. > > If I log on via the console over a serial port, and issue a 'kill -1' to the > Xvfb process, then everything works again, except that tomcat has then > crashed! Nothing at all appears in the catalina logs. > > Has anyone seen this sort of behavior? I'm rather confused as to what is > going on. Thanks for any help! > > Best regards, > > Richard > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
