shutdown gives fatal error

[glevenelm]

Hi,

I hope someone will know what might cause this problem.

I'm running tomcat 5.0.28 on Unix. Started tomcat using startup.sh and it's running fine.

When I try to shut it down using shutdown.sh I get the following error:

Sep 14, 2005 5:11:14 PM org.apache.commons.digester.Digester fatalError
SEVERE: Parse Fatal Error at line 384 column 2: The markup in the document following the root element must be well-formed.
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The markup in the document following the root element must be well-formed.

and tomcat does not stop. I can kill -9 to stop it, but I would like to understand why it won't stop with the shell script.

Thanks for your help!

 

[sedj]

what does "catalina.sh stop" do for you ?

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[glevenelm]

Thanks Sedj for responding.

I tried catalina.sh stop - but got the same error.

 

[sedj]

Sounds like you've knackered one of the tomcat xml config files ... have you tried a re-install ?

BTW, in UNIX/Linux, quite often the java process running Tomcat does not shutdown - this is due to how processes in UNIX/Linux handle spwaned threads. In Win32, if a process is asked to exit, then the whole app will exit, terminating any running threads, but in UNIX/Linux, the process will hang around until the threads die (which in Tomcat is never), so you will probably have to do a pkill or kill anyhow, even if you do fix that error !

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[glevenelm]

Hi Sedj,

Yes - I came to the conclusion that I need to do a kill to shutdown tomcat. I don't remember touching any .xml files, but who knows?

I'll be installing tomcat on another machine, and I'll check for differences then.

Thanks again for your help.

 

[mhoyman1]

Sedj

I have a client that is recieving the errors on shutdown and then are on windows. Do you know of any documented problems.

The version is tomcat 4.1.3 using jdk 1.4.2