A search of the tomcat-user archives suggests that this is a new way for Tomcat to start poorly on Windows XP.
Below is stdout.log after a clean install of j2sdk-1_4_2_04-windows-i586-p.exe and jakarta-tomcat-5.0.24.exe on a Windows XP Pro desktop system. I started Tomcat from the Configure Tomcat application.
While installing and uninstalling j2sdk and Tomcat many times over the past few days, I've found and removed older Tomcats, j2sdk, and jre installations. I suspect that this problem is caused by some residue of those earlier installs.
I welcome your suggestions. Thanks.
Save yourself a lot of trouble and forget the installer. Just unzip the archive to a directly, set JAVA_HOME and CATALINA_HOME, and run. If you want to use the service, just use "service.bat [install | remove]".
I've never seen any problems like this and I've never used the installer.
Jake
May 26, 2004 1:12:51 AM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol init
INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
May 26, 2004 1:12:51 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 2937 ms
May 26, 2004 1:12:51 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start
INFO: Starting service Catalina
May 26, 2004 1:12:51 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/5.0.24
May 26, 2004 1:12:51 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost start
INFO: XML validation disabled
May 26, 2004 1:12:51 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost getDeployer
INFO: Create Host deployer for direct deployment ( non-jmx )
May 26, 2004 1:12:51 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer install
INFO: Processing Context configuration file URL file:D:\Projects\Tomcat 5.0\conf\Catalina\localhost\admin.xml
May 26, 2004 1:12:55 AM org.apache.struts.util.MessageResourcesFactory createFactory
SEVERE: MessageResourcesFactory.createFactory
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/servlet/jsp/JspException
at org.apache.struts.util.MessageResourcesFactory.createFactory(MessageResourcesFactory.java:192)
at org.apache.struts.util.MessageResources.getMessageResources(MessageResources.java:576)
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.initInternal(ActionServlet.java:1329)
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.init(ActionServlet.java:464)
at org.apache.webapp.admin.ApplicationServlet.init(ApplicationServlet.java:105)
at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:211)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1019)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:862)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:3991)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4335)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:823)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:807)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:595)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer.addChild(StandardHostDeployer.java:903)
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:324)
at org.apache.commons.beanutils.MethodUtils.invokeMethod(MethodUtils.java:252)
at org.apache.commons.digester.SetNextRule.end(SetNextRule.java:256)
at org.apache.commons.digester.Rule.end(Rule.java:276)
at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.endElement(Digester.java:1058)
at org.apache.catalina.util.CatalinaDigester.endElement(CatalinaDigester.java:76)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1567)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer.install(StandardHostDeployer.java:488)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.install(StandardHost.java:863)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.java:482)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:427)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:964)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:349)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1091)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:789)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1083)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:478)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:476)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:2298)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:556)
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:324)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:284)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:422)
May 26, 2004 1:12:56 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer install
INFO: Processing Context configuration file URL file:D:\Projects\Tomcat 5.0\conf\Catalina\localhost\balancer.xml
May 26, 2004 1:12:56 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer install
INFO: Processing Context configuration file URL file:D:\Projects\Tomcat 5.0\conf\Catalina\localhost\manager.xml
May 26, 2004 1:12:56 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer install
INFO: Installing web application at context path /jsp-examples from URL file:D:\Projects\Tomcat 5.0\webapps\jsp-examples
May 26, 2004 1:12:57 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer install
INFO: Installing web application at context path from URL file:D:\Projects\Tomcat 5.0\webapps\ROOT
May 26, 2004 1:12:57 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer install
INFO: Installing web application at context path /servlets-examples from URL file:D:\Projects\Tomcat 5.0\webapps\servlets-examples
May 26, 2004 1:12:58 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer install
INFO: Installing web application at context path /tomcat-docs from URL file:D:\Projects\Tomcat 5.0\webapps\tomcat-docs
May 26, 2004 1:12:58 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer install
INFO: Installing web application at context path /webdav from URL file:D:\Projects\Tomcat 5.0\webapps\webdav
May 26, 2004 1:12:58 AM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol start
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
May 26, 2004 1:12:59 AM org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket init
INFO: JK2: ajp13 listening on /0.0.0.0:8009
May 26, 2004 1:12:59 AM org.apache.jk.server.JkMain start
INFO: Jk running ID=0 time=0/156 config=D:\Projects\Tomcat 5.0\conf\jk2.properties
May 26, 2004 1:12:59 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 7813 ms
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