That solved the problem. The documentation says that mail.jar and activation.jar are optional and only needed if you are going to be using mail from Roller. The docs need to be fixed on this point.
--- On Sun, 1/9/11, Matt Raible <[email protected]> wrote: From: Matt Raible <[email protected]> Subject: Re: roller won't start on Tomcat 7 To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, January 9, 2011, 9:07 PM I would try including mail.jar and activation.jar and see if it works. On Jan 9, 2011, at 8:38 PM, Dean Schulze <[email protected]> wrote: > > The only thing in the .log file is this about not having the mail .jar: > > SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of > class org.apache.roller.weblogger.ui.core.RollerContext > java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/mail/Authenticator > > > I don't see why this would cause the Postgresql JDBC driver to be unloaded, > though. > > The documentation says that using mail is optional so I didn't include the > mail and activation .jar files. > > > > --- On Sun, 1/9/11, Matt Raible <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Matt Raible <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: roller won't start on Tomcat 7 > To: [email protected] > Date: Sunday, January 9, 2011, 1:13 PM > > I would look in $CATALINA_HOME/logs/localhost*.log and see if there's any > additional information in there. > > On Jan 9, 2011, at 1:12 PM, Dean Schulze wrote: > >> Roller 4.0.1 won't start on Tomcat 7 with Postgresql 8.4. Here's the error: >> >> Jan 9, 2011 1:04:51 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory >> INFO: Deploying web application directory roller >> Roller Weblogger: Successfully loaded custom properties file from classpath >> Jan 9, 2011 1:04:53 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal >> SEVERE: Error listenerStart >> Jan 9, 2011 1:04:53 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal >> SEVERE: Context [/roller] startup failed due to previous errors >> Jan 9, 2011 1:04:53 PM org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader >> clearReferencesJdbc >> SEVERE: The web application [/roller] registered the JBDC driver >> [org.postgresql.Driver] but failed to unregister it when the web application >> was stopped. To prevent a memory leak, the JDBC Driver has been forcibly >> unregistered. >> Jan 9, 2011 1:04:53 PM org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader >> clearReferencesThreads >> SEVERE: The web application [/roller] appears to have started a thread named >> [Store userCache Spool Thread] but has failed to stop it. This is very >> likely to create a memory leak. >> Jan 9, 2011 1:04:53 PM org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader >> clearReferencesThreads >> SEVERE: The web application [/roller] appears to have started a thread named >> [Store userCache Expiry Thread] but has failed to stop it. This is very >> likely to create a memory leak. >> Jan 9, 2011 1:04:53 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory >> INFO: Deploying web application directory ROOT >> Jan 9, 2011 1:04:53 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol start >> INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080 >> Jan 9, 2011 1:04:53 PM org.apache.coyote.ajp.AjpProtocol start >> INFO: Starting Coyote AJP/1.3 on ajp-8009 >> Jan 9, 2011 1:04:53 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start >> INFO: Server startup in 7969 ms >> >> >> Anyone else seen this? >> >> >> >> > > > >
