Unfortunately/fortunately now the application is deploying correctly every time and I haven't been able to reproduce the situation where the system hangs so I can take some thread dumps. I'll keep trying. Does order matter in the web.xml filter definition, I mean could it be possible that the filter's init method is trying to access the init-params before they've been set?
-----Original Message----- From: Mark Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 October 2008 00:41 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: filter problem when starting tomcat Chris van Es wrote: > on some occasions the webapp which contains > the filter in its web.xml hangs for a number of minutes (up to 10 > minutes in the worst case) then fails with "SEVERE: error filterStart > [appName]" Try taking some thread dumps whilst the system is hung. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]