Hi think it has been treated multiple times on the list but it means a jar misses a META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
Just exclude this jar from the scanning and this exception will disappear. Romain Manni-Bucau @rmannibucau <https://twitter.com/rmannibucau> | Blog <https://blog-rmannibucau.rhcloud.com> | Old Wordpress Blog <http://rmannibucau.wordpress.com> | Github <https://github.com/rmannibucau> | LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/rmannibucau> | Tomitriber <http://www.tomitribe.com> | JavaEE Factory <https://javaeefactory-rmannibucau.rhcloud.com> 2016-06-29 15:36 GMT+02:00 Dignesh <dgo...@opentext.com>: > Hi, > I am seeing the below the exception during the server start up.And server > is > terminated automatically. > I dont see any other exception other than below stack trace. Can any one > please help me in understanding what is causing the issue. > > 29-Jun-2016 19:36:00.103 SEVERE [Catalina-startStop-1] > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke A child container failed during > start > java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: > org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component > > [StandardEngine[Catalina].StandardHost[localhost].StandardContext[/content]] > at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.report(FutureTask.java:122) > at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(FutureTask.java:188) > at > > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.startInternal(ContainerBase.java:913) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.startInternal(StandardHost.java:890) > at > org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:152) > at > > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1405) > at > > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1395) > at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262) > at > > java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) > at > > java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744) > Caused by: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start > component > > [StandardEngine[Catalina].StandardHost[localhost].StandardContext[/content]] > at > org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:158) > ... 6 more > Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException > at > > org.apache.tomcat.util.scan.StandardJarScanner.processManifest(StandardJarScanner.java:373) > at > > org.apache.tomcat.util.scan.StandardJarScanner.process(StandardJarScanner.java:328) > at > > org.apache.tomcat.util.scan.StandardJarScanner.scan(StandardJarScanner.java:277) > at > org.apache.tomee.loader.TomEEJarScanner.scan(TomEEJarScanner.java:59) > at > > org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processJarsForWebFragments(ContextConfig.java:1887) > at > > org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.webConfig(ContextConfig.java:1122) > at > > org.apache.catalina.startup.OpenEJBContextConfig.webConfig(OpenEJBContextConfig.java:402) > at > > org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.configureStart(ContextConfig.java:771) > at > > org.apache.catalina.startup.OpenEJBContextConfig.configureStart(OpenEJBContextConfig.java:123) > at > > org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java:298) > at > > org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleBase.java:94) > at > > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5093) > at > org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:152) > ... 6 more > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://tomee-openejb.979440.n4.nabble.com/TomEE-Server-not-getting-started-tp4679116.html > Sent from the TomEE Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >