Resolution, Re: Help! Tomcat crashing on takeoff

2015-01-05 Thread James H. H. Lampert
People on both the Tomcat and Java400-L Lists nailed the problem: it turned out to be a PTF issue. Once the customer got the box's PTFs fully in order, Tomcat started up without a problem, a self-signed certificate brought up their SSL, and our WAR file uploaded and deployed normally. They

Re: Resolution, Re: Help! Tomcat crashing on takeoff

2015-01-05 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 James, On 1/5/15 11:37 AM, James H. H. Lampert wrote: People on both the Tomcat and Java400-L Lists nailed the problem: it turned out to be a PTF issue. For those playing-along at home: PTF = Program Temporary Fix. It's IBM's term for patch,

Re: Help! Tomcat crashing on takeoff

2014-12-22 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On the Tomcat Users List, Pete Helgren wrote: Also, are you sure that Java 6 on this box is current with PTF's and that the profile this is running under is picking up the correct JVM version when it runs? My money is on a J9 JVM PTF but an issue with permissions or JVM version could be a

Re: Help! Tomcat crashing on takeoff

2014-12-13 Thread Ameer Mawia
Tomcat has few fallback approach for catalina.properties: 1.First it look at system properties for config url, with property name catalina.config 2.If it could not find in step-1, it looks at CATALINA_BASE/conf/ 3.If it again could'n find above, it tries to load it from the classpath of

Help! Tomcat crashing on takeoff

2014-12-12 Thread James H. H. Lampert
I'm trying to bring up Tomcat on a customer's AS/400. It's at the same OS release as our own box, and Java 6 was just installed on it, sometime this past week. I get this exception in catalina.out: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina  at

RE: Help! Tomcat crashing on takeoff

2014-12-12 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: James H. H. Lampert [mailto:jam...@touchtonecorp.com] Subject: Help! Tomcat crashing on takeoff I'm trying to bring up Tomcat on a customer's AS/400. Don't suppose you'd want to give us a clue as to _exactly_ which version of Tomcat you're trying to run? - Chuck THIS COMMUNICATION

Re: Help! Tomcat crashing on takeoff

2014-12-12 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 12/12/14 10:02 AM, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: From: James H. H. Lampert [mailto:jam...@touchtonecorp.com] Subject: Help! Tomcat crashing on takeoff I'm trying to bring up Tomcat on a customer's AS/400. Don't suppose you'd want to give us a clue as to _exactly_ which version of Tomcat

Re: Help! Tomcat crashing on takeoff

2014-12-12 Thread Filip Hanik
jam...@touchtonecorp.com wrote: On 12/12/14 10:02 AM, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: From: James H. H. Lampert [mailto:jam...@touchtonecorp.com] Subject: Help! Tomcat crashing on takeoff I'm trying to bring up Tomcat on a customer's AS/400. Don't suppose you'd want to give us a clue

Re: Help! Tomcat crashing on takeoff

2014-12-12 Thread Ameer Mawia
: From: James H. H. Lampert [mailto:jam...@touchtonecorp.com] Subject: Help! Tomcat crashing on takeoff I'm trying to bring up Tomcat on a customer's AS/400. Don't suppose you'd want to give us a clue as to _exactly_ which version of Tomcat you're trying to run? Certainly

Re: Help! Tomcat crashing on takeoff

2014-12-12 Thread Ameer Mawia
wrote: On 12/12/14 10:02 AM, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: From: James H. H. Lampert [mailto:jam...@touchtonecorp.com] Subject: Help! Tomcat crashing on takeoff I'm trying to bring up Tomcat on a customer's AS/400. Don't suppose you'd want to give us a clue as to _exactly_ which

Re: Help! Tomcat crashing on takeoff

2014-12-12 Thread Christopher Schultz
, James H. H. Lampert jam...@touchtonecorp.com wrote: On 12/12/14 10:02 AM, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: From: James H. H. Lampert [mailto:jam...@touchtonecorp.com] Subject: Help! Tomcat crashing on takeoff I'm trying to bring up Tomcat on a customer's AS/400. Don't suppose you'd

Re: Help! Tomcat crashing on takeoff

2014-12-12 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 12/12/14 11:21 AM, Ameer Mawia wrote: catalina.jar is loaded by common.loader defined catalina.properties: common.loader=${catalina.base}/lib,${catalina.base}/lib/*.jar,${catalina.home}/lib,${catalina.home}/lib/*.jar As stack-trace shows Bootstrap has been loaded successfully. So

Re: Help! Tomcat crashing on takeoff

2014-12-12 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 12/12/14 11:43 AM, Christopher Schultz wrote: I wouldn't be surprised if the AS/400 unzip software does Bad Things to ZIP archives. Make sure you use UNIX-compatible tools to unpack everything, or maybe do everything from inside that UNIX-like environment (I seem to recall that, while you are

Re: Help! Tomcat crashing on takeoff

2014-12-12 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 James, On 12/12/14 3:19 PM, James H. H. Lampert wrote: On 12/12/14 11:43 AM, Christopher Schultz wrote: I wouldn't be surprised if the AS/400 unzip software does Bad Things to ZIP archives. Make sure you use UNIX-compatible tools to unpack

Re: Help! Tomcat crashing on takeoff

2014-12-12 Thread Filip Hanik
possibly add -verbose:class to your JVM options and see if that yields anything On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Christopher Schultz ch...@christopherschultz.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 James, On 12/12/14 3:19 PM, James H. H. Lampert wrote: On 12/12/14

Re: Help! Tomcat crashing on takeoff

2014-12-12 Thread Filip Hanik
or -Dibm.cl.verbose=ClassToTrace On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Filip Hanik fi...@hanik.com wrote: possibly add -verbose:class to your JVM options and see if that yields anything On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Christopher Schultz ch...@christopherschultz.net wrote: -BEGIN

Re: Help! Tomcat crashing on takeoff

2014-12-12 Thread Pete Helgren
On 12/12/2014 2:19 PM, James H. H. Lampert wrote: On 12/12/14 11:43 AM, Christopher Schultz wrote: I wouldn't be surprised if the AS/400 unzip software does Bad Things to ZIP archives. Make sure you use UNIX-compatible tools to unpack everything, or maybe do everything from inside that

Re: Help! Tomcat crashing on takeoff

2014-12-12 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Filip Hanik fi...@hanik.com wrote: possibly add -verbose:class to your JVM options and see if that yields anything On 12/12/14 1:27 PM, Filip Hanik wrote: or -Dibm.cl.verbose=ClassToTrace Again calling /wintouch/tomcat/bin/startup.sh from an

Re: Help! Tomcat crashing on takeoff

2014-12-12 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 12/12/14 2:54 PM, Pete Helgren wrote: My money is on a J9 JVM PTF but an issue with permissions or JVM version could be a possibility.. That's occurred to us as well; we've asked someone at their end to check for PTFs. -- JHHL

Re: Help! Tomcat crashing on takeoff

2014-12-12 Thread Konstantin Kolinko
2014-12-12 22:43 GMT+03:00 Christopher Schultz ch...@christopherschultz.net: EBCDIC can certainly be confusing things, here. I wonder - can you verify that conf/catalina.properties file can be read with a simple Java program? Essentially Tomcat does the following: in

Re: Help! Tomcat crashing on takeoff

2014-12-12 Thread Filip Hanik
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 3:55 PM, James H. H. Lampert jam...@touchtonecorp.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Filip Hanik fi...@hanik.com wrote: possibly add -verbose:class to your JVM options and see if that yields anything On 12/12/14 1:27 PM, Filip Hanik wrote: or

Re: Help! Tomcat crashing on takeoff

2014-12-12 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 12/12/14 5:36 PM, Filip Hanik wrote: ​We're not looking for change, we're looking for the output, that may tell us what is going on. Please post it, if you're not getting any output, then either those aren't supported (which I definitely thought they would be), or you're invoking it

Re: Help! Tomcat crashing on takeoff

2014-12-12 Thread Filip Hanik
It means they didn't take into effect. On the command line you should be able to do java -verbose:class -version and see if that flag works, if it does, then I suggest you create a setenv.sh file next to startup.sh and put JAVA_OPTS=-verbose:class -Dibm.cl.verbose=ClassToTrace export