I am setting up tomcat and shibboleth to do SSO sign on with google apps. I am trying to use tomcat as a stand alone web server with NO apache httpd.
I am following the iDp installation instructions at: https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/SHIB2/IdPApacheTomcatPrepare. I am using the google instruction from: http://code.google.com/apis/apps/articles/shibboleth2.0.html I do the install and start tomcat and I get the "Context initialization failed" error. The error seems to say it is unable to parse the file $IDP_HOME/conf/internal.xml -- which I have not touched. So, I assume there is something in the internal.xml file that refers to one of the files I did touch and the mistake is really there. I do not know how to determine where the problem is. Can anyone suggest something? I would be most grateful for any ideas or help. Thanks Dave Massie Below are the contents of Catalina.out: May 7, 2009 4:44:04 PM org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener init INFO: The APR based Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performance in production environments was not found on the java.library.path: /usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.5.0/jre/lib/sparc/server:/usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.5.0/jre/lib/sparc:/usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.5.0/jre/../lib/sparc:/usr/lib May 7, 2009 4:44:04 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol init INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080 May 7, 2009 4:44:09 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol init INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8443 May 7, 2009 4:44:09 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load INFO: Initialization processed in 7645 ms May 7, 2009 4:44:09 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start INFO: Starting service Catalina May 7, 2009 4:44:09 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/6.0.18 16:44:34.315 [main] ERROR o.s.web.context.ContextLoader - Context initialization failed org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Unexpected exception parsing XML document from URL [file:/var/services/shibboleth-idp/conf/internal.xml]; nested exception is java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:420) [spring-beans-2.5.5.jar:2.5.5] at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:342) [spring-beans-2.5.5.jar:2.5.5] at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:310) [spring-beans-2.5.5.jar:2.5.5] at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:143) [spring-beans-2.5.5.jar:2.5.5] at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:178) [spring-beans-2.5.5.jar:2.5.5] at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:149) [spring-beans-2.5.5.jar:2.5.5] at org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:124) [spring-web-2.5.5.jar:2.5.5] at org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:92) [spring-web-2.5.5.jar:2.5.5] at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.refreshBeanFactory(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:123) [spring-context-2.5.5.jar:2.5.5] at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.obtainFreshBeanFactory(AbstractApplicationContext.java:423) [spring-context-2.5.5.jar:2.5.5] at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:353) [spring-context-2.5.5.jar:2.5.5] at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:255) [spring-web-2.5.5.jar:2.5.5] at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:199) [spring-web-2.5.5.jar:2.5.5] at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:45) [spring-web-2.5.5.jar:2.5.5] at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3843) [catalina.jar:na] at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4342) [catalina.jar:na] at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:791) [catalina.jar:na] at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:771) [catalina.jar:na] at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:525) [catalina.jar:na] at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:627) [catalina.jar:na] at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.java:553) [catalina.jar:na] at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:488) [catalina.jar:na] at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1149) [catalina.jar:na] at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:311) [catalina.jar:na] at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:117) [catalina.jar:na] at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053) [catalina.jar:na] at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:719) [catalina.jar:na] at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045) [catalina.jar:na] at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443) [catalina.jar:na] at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:516) [catalina.jar:na] at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:710) [catalina.jar:na] at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:578) [catalina.jar:na] at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) [na:1.5.0_17] at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) [na:1.5.0_17] at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) [na:1.5.0_17] at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) [na:1.5.0_17] at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:288) [bootstrap.jar:na] at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:413) [bootstrap.jar:na] Caused by: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.opti.ElementImpl.getAttributes(Unknown Source) [na:na] at org.apache.xerces.util.DOMUtil.getAttrs(Unknown Source) [na:na] at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.traversers.XSAttributeChecker.checkAttributes(Unknown Source) [na:na] at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.traversers.XSAttributeChecker.checkAttributes(Unknown Source) [na:na] at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.traversers.XSDAbstractTraverser.traverseAnnotationDecl(Unknown Source) [na:na] at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.traversers.XSDAttributeTraverser.traverseNamedAttr(Unknown Source) [na:na] at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.traversers.XSDAttributeTraverser.traverseLocal(Unknown Source) [na:na] at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.traversers.XSDAbstractTraverser.traverseAttrsAndAttrGrps(Unknown Source) [na:na] at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.traversers.XSDComplexTypeTraverser.processComplexContent(Unknown Source) [na:na] at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.traversers.XSDComplexTypeTraverser.traverseComplexContent(Unknown Source) [na:na] at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.traversers.XSDComplexTypeTraverser.traverseComplexTypeDecl(Unknown Source) [na:na] at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.traversers.XSDComplexTypeTraverser.traverseLocal(Unknown Source) [na:na] at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.traversers.XSDElementTraverser.traverseNamedElement(Unknown Source) [na:na] at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.traversers.XSDElementTraverser.traverseGlobal(Unknown Source) [na:na] at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.traversers.XSDHandler.traverseSchemas(Unknown Source) [na:na] at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.traversers.XSDHandler.parseSchema(Unknown Source) [na:na] at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.XMLSchemaLoader.loadSchema(Unknown Source) [na:na] at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.XMLSchemaValidator.findSchemaGrammar(Unknown Source) [na:na] at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.XMLSchemaValidator.handleStartElement(Unknown Source) [na:na] at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.XMLSchemaValidator.startElement(Unknown Source) [na:na] at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(Unknown Source) [na:na] at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl$NSContentDispatcher.scanRootElementHook(Unknown Source) [na:na] at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source) [na:na] at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source) [na:na] at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source) [na:na] at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source) [na:na] at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source) [na:na] at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser.parse(Unknown Source) [na:na] at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(Unknown Source) [na:na] at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultDocumentLoader.loadDocument(DefaultDocumentLoader.java:75) [spring-beans-2.5.5.jar:2.5.5] at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:396) [spring-beans-2.5.5.jar:2.5.5] at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:342) [spring-beans-2.5.5.jar:2.5.5] May 7, 2009 4:44:35 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start SEVERE: Error listenerStart May 7, 2009 4:44:35 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start SEVERE: Context [/idp] startup failed due to previous errors May 7, 2009 4:44:46 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol start INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080 java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:288) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:413) Caused by: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space at java.util.Collections.synchronizedCollection(Collections.java:1536) at java.util.Hashtable.values(Hashtable.java:693) at java.util.ResourceBundle.cleanUpConstructionList(ResourceBundle.java:848) at java.util.ResourceBundle.getBundleImpl(ResourceBundle.java:801) at java.util.ResourceBundle.getBundle(ResourceBundle.java:549) at java.util.logging.Level.getLocalizedName(Level.java:223) at java.util.logging.SimpleFormatter.format(SimpleFormatter.java:64) at org.apache.juli.FileHandler.publish(FileHandler.java:129) at java.util.logging.Logger.log(Logger.java:452) at java.util.logging.Logger.doLog(Logger.java:474) at java.util.logging.Logger.logp(Logger.java:674) at org.apache.juli.logging.DirectJDKLog.log(DirectJDKLog.java:167) at org.apache.juli.logging.DirectJDKLog.error(DirectJDKLog.java:135) at org.apache.jk.server.JkMain.newHandler(JkMain.java:584) at org.apache.jk.server.JkMain.start(JkMain.java:318) at org.apache.jk.server.JkCoyoteHandler.start(JkCoyoteHandler.java:144) at org.apache.catalina.connector.Connector.start(Connector.java:1131) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:531) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:710) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:578) ... 6 more