net-www/tomcat-5.0.18 fails to start due to "NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/logging/LogFactory" /opt/tomcat/bin/commons-logging-api.jar is in the CLASSPATH. This is the file that has this class. It should be no problem to load it for java. Maybe it's a java bug? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. /etc/init.d/tomcat start && tail -f /opt/tomcat/logs/catalina.log Actual Results: Mar 20, 2004 10:51:26 AM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol init INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on port 8080 Mar 20, 2004 10:51:26 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load INFO: Initialization processed in 3481 ms java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException 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:324) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:297) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:398) Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/logging/LogFactory at org.apache.naming.NamingContext.<clinit>(NamingContext.java:102) at org.apache.catalina.core.NamingContextListener.lifecycleEvent(NamingContextListener.java:276) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:166) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:2338) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:598) ... 6 more Expected Results: No exceptions and a running tomcat.... # qpkg -I -v sun-jdk dev-java/sun-jdk-1.4.2.04-r1 * # java-config -v java version "1.4.2_04" Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2_04-b05) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2_04-b05, mixed mode) #emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.3-gentoo-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.3-gentoo-r1 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /etc/tomcat /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache fixpackages sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo http://gentoo.linux.no/ ftp://gentoo.linux.no/pub/gentoo/ http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="S3TC X aalib acl acpi acpi4linux alsa also apache2 arts autofs avi berkdb bonobo clanJavaScript clanVoice crypt cups dga directfb dvd encode esd evo fbcon foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hbci imap imlib imlib2 ipv6 java javascript jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww lirc mad maildir memlimit mikmod mmx motif mozcalendar mozilla mozp3p mozsvg mozxmlterm mpeg mysql nas ncurses nls nptl oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl pic png pnp ppds python qt quicktime readline samba sdl sis slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff transcode truetype unicode usb x86 xinerama xml xml2 xmms xosd xv xvid zlib"
export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:`java-config -p commons-logging` && /etc/init.d/tomcat start Try that. I'm not sure what's up :P as I'm unable to reproduce this locally at the moment. What version of commons logging do you have?
There is no dependency for commons-logging in tomcat 5.0.18 so it's not installed on my system. I have a commons-logging-api.jar in /opt/tomcat/bin. This is included in the classpath through catalina.sh. This jar file includes org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory Permissions are set to readable for everyone. So this should also be not the problem. I really can't explain where the error is. I had tomcat allready working and all I did was an update from dev-java/sun-jdk-1.4.2.04 to dev-java/sun-jdk-1.4.2.04-r1. But since I update every stable marked update every day it's possible that other side effects play a role here. I have reemerged tomcat allready but with no success so I opened this bug.
emerge unmerge tomcat && rm -rf /etc/conf.d/tomcat /etc/init.d/tomcat /etc/tomcat /usr/share/tomcat /opt/tomcat /var/log/tomcat and reconfiguring the whole thing resolves that problem which may depends on the fact that I used tomcat-5.0.16 which was posted to bugs.gentoo.org before I updated to the offical 5.0.19 ebuild of tomcat. But I'm not 100% sure about that.
