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Alfresco Tomcat Error - catalina.pid....

bensewell — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:42:09 GMT

Hi,Running Alfresco 3.4.d on Centos 5.5. Everytime i restart the machine tomcat refuses to start. When i try manually using the ./alfresco.sh start it give an error ofID File: (/opt/alfresco-3.4.d/tomcat/temp/catalina.pid) found. Is tomcat still running? Start aborted./opt/alfresco-3.4.d/tomca

Re: Alfresco Tomcat Error - catalina.pid....

nikolaricci — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:05:21 GMT

I had same problem, after power loss. And after new boot up, tomcat couldn't start, then I've removed catalina.pid and then started successfully.

Re: Alfresco Tomcat Error - catalina.pid....

acommons — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 22:21:51 GMT

Same issue here after an orderly system shutdown. I have Alfresco registered as a service so I'm assuming that an orderly stop will be intitiated as part of the shutdown - i.e. service alfresco stop.

I have no problem manualy staring and stopping with alfresco.sh however if I use the service command I get errors displayed on the service alfresco stop. Alfresco seems to stop and the catalina.pid file goes away so a restart is fine but the errors are still a worry.

cheers

Re: Alfresco Tomcat Error - catalina.pid....

bensewell — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:20:53 GMT

Yes I can get round this fault, its just something a bit annoying that shouldnt really happen. I have noticed a tidyup script in the alfresco folders which i might run to see if it gets rid of the problem then link it onto the back of the stop and restart alfresco scripts if it works.

Re: Alfresco Tomcat Error - catalina.pid....

acommons — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 07:52:47 GMT

My gut reaction (a.k.a. wild guess) is that this is a race condition on system shutdown.

No evidence to back that up of course :lol:

Re: Alfresco Tomcat Error - catalina.pid....

pmachado — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:09:23 GMT

looks like after a power failure or a hard stop of a virtual machine, the /tomcat/temp/catalina.pid file keeps a pid number that becomes invalid to the next system startup. it should be solved with a init script deleting this file before tomcat starts.
Anybody knows how to fix that?