Hello! I'm running Tomcat 5.5.25 on SLED 10. I performed the installation of Tomcat manually, using the apache-tomcat-5.5.25 archive from Apache's website. Tomcat will start fine and operate as expected, but shutting down is unreliable and often takes about 5 minutes to complete. If I run the $CATALINA_BASE/bin/shutdown.sh script, it will return immediately without errors, but checking for the process ("ps aux | grep tomcat") shows it is still loaded for a long amount of time after the script is called. On a different server with identical hardware and very similar tomcat installation, the shutdown script will bring Tomcat down in about 3 seconds.
Reading through catalina.out, I find this error which corresponds to calling the shutdown.sh script: SEVERE: Protocol handler pause failed java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:305) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:171) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:158) at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:461) at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:411) at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:310) at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:154) at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.unLockSocket(ChannelSocket.java:49 2) at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.pause(ChannelSocket.java:289) at org.apache.jk.server.JkMain.pause(JkMain.java:681) at org.apache.jk.server.JkCoyoteHandler.pause(JkCoyoteHandler.java:163) at org.apache.catalina.connector.Connector.pause(Connector.java:1032) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.stop(StandardService.java:48 9) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.stop(StandardServer.java:734) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.stop(Catalina.java:602) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:577) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl. java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAcces sorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:295) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:433) Sep 19, 2007 3:11:55 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService stop INFO: Stopping service Catalina Sep 19, 2007 3:11:56 AM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol destroy INFO: Stopping Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080 Sep 19, 2007 3:11:56 AM org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener lifecycleE vent INFO: Failed shutdown of Apache Portable Runtime I've found a couple similar cases where people had this problem. They resolved it by doing something with their network configuration, but in both cases the description of their solution was very vague, so I'm not sure how I could proceed. -Erik