I upgraded the jdk to version 1.3.1...solved it.... its funny, i've stumbled upon this error in 9-10 different places...but never associated with a fix.... Mikkel -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Dmitri Colebatch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sendt: 03 July 2001 09:43 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: Re: SV: SV: OFFTOPIC: Solaris and Tomcat problems! I'm out of ideas. I do see posts about solaris and tomcat on the tomcat lists, but dont pay attention sorry (o: be worth checking the archives first though (o: cheers dim On Tue, 3 Jul 2001 17:16, you wrote: > its a completely fresh install of both solaris and tomcat... > > the jdk is 1.2.2 > > the servlets examples work, but the jsp examples runs in an infinite loop > during the translation (the last line is added repeatedly)... > > I'll try the tomcat lists... > > thanks > > Mikkel > > > -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- > Fra: Dmitri Colebatch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sendt: 03 July 2001 09:24 > Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Emne: Re: SV: OFFTOPIC: Solaris and Tomcat problems! > > > Hi, > > The tomcat list is very friendly (o: > > but for now... > > do the log files say anything useful? > is this a fresh install of tomcat? do the examples work? > which jdk are you using? > > I have no idea about any solaris related issues, but if you're getting > problems like this I'd be inclined to do a fresh install of tomcat, and see > if that works, then dump your config and webapps over the fresh one. > > hope this helps > cheers > dim > > On Tue, 3 Jul 2001 16:58, you wrote: > > I have the tools.jar in my classpath, and it correctly shows this when i > > startup tomcat... > > but the problem still remains... > > > > during startup it guesses my JAVA_HOME and TOMCAT_HOME and it comes up > > with > > > the right paths... > > > > Im really stuck here... > > > > any suggestions would be welcome!!! > > > > Mikkel > > > > > > -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- > > Fra: Dan Connelly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sendt: 02 July 2001 16:39 > > Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Emne: Re: OFFTOPIC: Solaris and Tomcat problems! > > > > > > There is no compiler class (jar) distributed with Tomcat, out of the box. > > Apparently there are none in open source. Apache will only distribute > > open > > > source. > > > > Of course, Sun (and others) distribute "tools.jar" (or equiv) gratis. > > Modify your startup.sh (or is it setenv.sh ??) to include the tools.jar > > on the Tomcat classpath. Then all is well. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Mikkel Bruun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 3:09 PM > > Subject: OFFTOPIC: Solaris and Tomcat problems! > > > > > This has nothing to do with struts, but I know this list has a couple > > > of guru's and demigods lurking... > > > > > > I have just installed solaris 8 on an intel machine. > > > I installed tomcat 3.2.2 and it runs the servlets examples without any > > > problems...BUT > > > There seems to be a problem running the jsp files... > > > Whenever i request a jsp file it just freezes, and i get no respond... > > > Looking into the matter I saw that the jsp was succesfully compiled to > > > a .java file...BUT > > > The jsp compiler seems to be endlessly looping in the translation, > > > because it keeps writing the same line over and over again (until im > > > out of disk space)... > > > I looked into the tomcat mailling archives and saw that somebod had > > > experienced this problem before, but I wasnt able to find a solution... > > > > > > Any suggestions???? > > > > > > thanks in advance... > > > > > > Mikkel