Tomcat 5 installed on RHEL 5 fails to start

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Issue

  • Issue with Tomcat 5 on RHEL 5.7. Tomcat does not start
  • In RHEL 5.7, installing tomcat 5 without the supplementary repository enabled, tomcat5 fails to start.
  • When installed with the supplementary repository enabled, tomcat5 starts up as expected.
  • The error shown in /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out after a failed start:
Using CATALINA_BASE:   /usr/share/tomcat5
Using CATALINA_HOME:   /usr/share/tomcat5
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/share/tomcat5/temp
Using JRE_HOME:
WARNING: error instantiating 'org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager' referenced by java.util.logging.manager, class not found
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager not found
   <<No stacktrace available>>
WARNING: error instantiating '1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler,' referenced by handlers, class not found
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: 1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler,
   <<No stacktrace available>>
Exception during runtime initialization
java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
   <<No stacktrace available>>
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
   <<No stacktrace available>>

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5
    • Tomcat 5

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