I just solved this by myself... I don't know what the problem was exactly but I uninstalled the version I had and I downloaded the binarys for version 5.5 from the tomcat project site. It now works great and I suspect it might be something related to ubuntu more than tomcat. I submited a bug to the ubuntu guys so if anybody has or had this problem please let me know.
thank you ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sorin Silaghi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jun 16, 2006 1:29 PM Subject: problems with tomcat and JSF on Linux To: users@tomcat.apache.org Hello, I have just started using Tomcat for developing JSF apps. I've started by making some JSP pages to get the hang of that. And all was great until I switched over to JSF (MyFaces). First of all the server has a bit of a problem with new files added in the webapps directory. Alot of the time I have to restart the server for it to see the new pages aded(dono if that's normal but I was expecting something more responsive). When at last I managed to get my hands on some examples that where sure to work, the server started freezing. And by that I men that it dosen't respond to the browser and when I try to restart it, the script has to force kill it. Right now I can't get anything to work anymore: the server is dead and restarting it, or even the computer dosen't help :( I have an Ubuntu 6.06 on my box and java 1.5.0, Apache 2.0.55, Tomcat 5.0.30-9. bye -- Don't talk it, Walk it! -- Don't talk it, Walk it!