tomcat errors

[flatliner]

I have installed tomcat4.1.30 on redhat EL3 and get the following errors....

on starting tomcat i get this message

Starting tomcat4: lock file found but no process running for pid 21972, continuing
[ OK ]

And when I stop tomcat i get

Stopping tomcat4: Using CATALINA_BASE: /usr/share/tomcat4
Using CATALINA_HOME: /usr/share/tomcat4
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/share/tomcat4/temp
Using JAVA_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/digester/RuleSet
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredConstructors(Class.java:1618)
at java.lang.Class.getConstructor0(Class.java:1930)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:278)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:261)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Unknown Source)
[root@xxxxxxxxxx lib]# [FAILED]

Anyone have any ideas?

 

[siberian]

Try this

1) Startup tomcat
2) Get its PID from the list
3) Check the pidfile, is the PID the same?
4) If not what are the perms on the pid file/directory?

Maybe the pidfile is not writeable by tomcat so when you try to stop it can't find that PID.

Does the stop actually stop it?