topic Tomcat6 - Fail to start in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/tomcat6-fail-to-start/m-p/154378#M108843 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello, </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I have installed Tomcat 6&nbsp; (clean installation) and followed the instructions on </SPAN><A href="http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Install_Tomcat6" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Install_Tomcat6</A><SPAN>, but when I start up Tomcat I get the following exception:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Jun 1, 2008 9:56:10 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap initClassLoaders</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>SEVERE: Class loader creation threw exception</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>java.io.IOException: Invalid argument</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at java.io.WinNTFileSystem.canonicalize0(Native Method)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at java.io.Win32FileSystem.canonicalize(Win32FileSystem.java:395)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at java.io.File.getCanonicalPath(File.java:531)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.startup.ClassLoaderFactory.createClassLoader(ClassLoaderFactory.java:200)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.createClassLoader(Bootstrap.java:173)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.initClassLoaders(Bootstrap.java:97)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:206)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:390)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If I remove the following line from line from catalina.properties, shared.loader=${catalina.base}/shared/classes,${catalina.base}/shared/lib/*.jar&nbsp; tomcat will start up fine, but I can not use my Alfresco configuration files.&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Alfresco Enterprise 2.2, Java 5, and Tomcat 6.0.16.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:07:18 GMT vhakkal 2008-06-02T02:07:18Z Tomcat6 - Fail to start https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/tomcat6-fail-to-start/m-p/154378#M108843 Hello, I have installed Tomcat 6&nbsp; (clean installation) and followed the instructions on http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Install_Tomcat6, but when I start up Tomcat I get the following exception:Jun 1, 2008 9:56:10 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap initClassLoadersSEVERE: Class loader creation t Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:07:18 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/tomcat6-fail-to-start/m-p/154378#M108843 vhakkal 2008-06-02T02:07:18Z Re: Tomcat6 - Fail to start https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/tomcat6-fail-to-start/m-p/154379#M108844 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Sounds like you haven't set catalina base or it hasn't been set.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Have you googled for that?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Rob</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:51:03 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/tomcat6-fail-to-start/m-p/154379#M108844 dinger 2008-06-02T09:51:03Z Re: Tomcat6 - Fail to start https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/tomcat6-fail-to-start/m-p/154380#M108845 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Both CATALINA_BASE and CATALINA_HOME are set to&nbsp; C:\tomcat. Just for the fun of it I used an absolute path and got the same error.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:55:25 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/tomcat6-fail-to-start/m-p/154380#M108845 vhakkal 2008-06-02T12:55:25Z