after starting tomcat, i get this log in catalina.log: 09.10.2006 11:33:44 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start SCHWERWIEGEND: Error filterStart in the admin.log is an exception: 09.10.2006 11:33:44 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext filterStart SCHWERWIEGEND: Exception starting filter Set Character Encoding java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.webapp.admin.filters.SetCharacterEncodingFilter at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1355) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1201) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.getFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:209) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.setFilterDef(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:304) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.<init>(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:77) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.filterStart(StandardContext.java:3634) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4217) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:759) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:739) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:524) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:608) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.java:535) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:470) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1122) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:310) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1021) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:718) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1013) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:442) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:450) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:709) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:551) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:294) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:432) the class missing, has to be under /usr/share/tomcat-5.5/server/webapps/admin/WEB-INF/lib/catalina-admin.jar and is missing.
Please use "New -> Gentoo Linux -> Component: Ebuilds" in future. Infrastructure is not the correct addressee.
Thx, changed ...
Ok modified patch to no longer comment out a few targets. The missing jar is now being build and installed. Admin webapp was tested and appears to be up and running. Just committed to tree, tomcat-5.5.20-r1, should be available on mirrors in a few hours. Closing bug, please reopen if you have further problems or file a new bug report.