Tomcat fails to start with `java.lang.NoSuchMethodError`.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Tomcat is failing to start with the following trace in catalina.out:
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:616)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:295)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:433)
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.apache.naming.NamingContextBindingsEnumeration.<init>(Ljava/util/Enumeration;)V
        at org.apache.naming.NamingContext.listBindings(NamingContext.java:432)
        at org.apache.naming.NamingContext.listBindings(NamingContext.java:461)
        at org.apache.catalina.mbeans.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener.createMBeans(GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener.java:135)
        at org.apache.catalina.mbeans.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener.createMBeans(GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener.java:109)
        at org.apache.catalina.mbeans.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener.lifecycleEvent(GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener.java:81)
        at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:120)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:693)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:552)

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • tomcat5

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