Hi there, starting Tomcat from a path containing a pound sign (#) somewhere results in a ClassNotFoundException.
I've checked this with - Solaris Sparc/X86 + Mac OS X - Java 5 + 6 - Tomcat 5.5.23 + 6.0.13 example: - mkdir /export/home/markus/tomcat#1 - extract tomcat within this directory - export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java (JDK 6) - /export/home/markus/tomcat#1/apache-tomcat-6.0.13/bin/startup.sh or cd /export/home/markus/tomcat#1/apache-tomcat-6.0.13/bin ; ./startup.sh output from catalina.sh with the java call (added set -x to catalina.sh - i.e. no problem of the calling script omitting something) /usr/java/bin/java -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/export/home/markus/tomcat#1/apache-tomcat-6.0.13/conf/logging.properties -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/export/home/markus/tomcat#1/apache-tomcat-6.0.13/endorsed -classpath :/export/home/markus/tomcat#1/apache-tomcat-6.0.13/bin/bootstrap.jar:/export/home/markus/tomcat#1/apache-tomcat-6.0.13/bin/commons-logging-api.jar -Dcatalina.base=/export/home/markus/tomcat#1/apache-tomcat-6.0.13 -Dcatalina.home=/export/home/markus/tomcat#1/apache-tomcat-6.0.13 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/export/home/markus/tomcat#1/apache-tomcat-6.0.13/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start $cat catalina.out java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:251) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:215) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:390) truss output: path was truncated after the # sign: ... 2717/2: read(5, "CAFEBABE\0\0\0 1\00701\0".., 142) = 142 2717/2: stat64("/export/home/markus/tomcat#1/apache-tomcat-6.0.13/bin/org/apache/catalina/security/SecurityClassLoad.class", 0xD230ABF0) Err#2 ENOENT 2717/2: llseek(9, 1422, SEEK_SET) = 1422 2717/2: read(9, " P K0304\n\0\0\0\b\0F91C".., 30) = 30 2717/2: llseek(9, 1504, SEEK_SET) = 1504 2717/2: read(9, "95 W k o14 U18 ~ f [DAC3".., 1634) = 1634 2717/2: brk(0x08172F08) = 0 2717/2: brk(0x08176F08) = 0 2717/9: pollsys(0x00000000, 0, 0xCFCA9CD8, 0x00000000) = 0 2717/2: stat64("/export/home/markus/tomcat#1/apache-tomcat-6.0.13/bin/org/apache/catalina/startup/Catalina.class", 0xD230B3D0) Err#2 ENOENT 2717/2: stat64("/export/home/markus/tomcat", 0xD230AA60) Err#2 ENOENT 2717/2: stat64("/export/home/markus/tomcat", 0xD230AA60) Err#2 ENOENT 2717/2: stat64("/export/home/markus/tomcat", 0xD230AA60) Err#2 ENOENT 2717/2: stat64("/export/home/markus/tomcat", 0xD230AA60) Err#2 ENOENT 2717/3: lwp_cond_wait(0x0806F7A0, 0x0806F788, 0xD208DB48, 0) (sleeping...) 2717/3: lwp_cond_wait(0x0806F7A0, 0x0806F788, 0xD208DB48, 0) Err#62 ETIME 2717/9: pollsys(0x00000000, 0, 0xCFCA9CD8, 0x00000000) = 0 2717/2: stat64("/export/home/markus/tomcat", 0xD230AA60) Err#2 ENOENT 2717/2: stat64("/export/home/markus/tomcat", 0xD230AA60) Err#2 ENOENT 2717/2: stat64("/export/home/markus/tomcat", 0xD230AA60) Err#2 ENOENT ... Although there is a rather old but maybe similar bug at: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4231042 i supose somewhere the road this has been fixed, as i have no problems with JAVA 5/6 and other java programs otherwise my tests where flawed. Installing the jdk in such a directory (e.g. /opt/java#6) works with tomcat, too. Can anybody confirm that "#" is still a special character (for tomcat)? Unfortunately i'm somewhat forced to place tomcat installations/ instances into such (with #) directories. Any fix possible? thanks in advance! kind regards, Markus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]