Alfresco on Tomcat - WAr gets installed but cannot start

[shikarishambu]

I tired installing Alfresco on an exisitng Tomcat instance. Installed the mysql db. Installed the WAR but cannot start it. Any help in resolving this is appreciated.

OS Windows 2003
JVM 1.5.02
Tomcat 5.0.28

In the Tomcat Manager I get the following message when i try to start it
FAIL - Application at context path /alfresco could not be started

In the stdout log I have the following

INFO: standardHost.start /alfresco
Nov 2, 2005 12:56:32 PM org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader loadClass
INFO: Illegal access: this web application instance has been stopped already (the eventual following stack trace is caused by an error thrown for debugging purposes as well as to attempt to terminate the thread which caused the illegal access, and has no functional impact)
12:56:32,643 ERROR [http-8080-Processor23] org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader - Context initialization failed
java.lang.ThreadDeath
   at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1229)
   at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1189)
   at java.security.Provider$Service.getImplClass(Unknown Source)
   at java.security.Provider$Service.newInstance(Unknown Source)
   at sun.security.jca.GetInstance.getInstance(Unknown Source)
   at sun.security.jca.GetInstance.getInstance(Unknown Source)
   at java.security.Security.getImpl(Unknown Source)
   at java.security.MessageDigest.getInstance(Unknown Source)
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.MD4PasswordEncoderImpl.<clinit>(MD4PasswordEncoderImpl.java:53)
   at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
   at java.lang.Class.forName(Unknown Source)
   at org.springframework.util.ClassUtils.forName(ClassUtils.java:86)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionReaderUtils.createBeanDefinition(BeanDefinitionReaderUtils.java:61)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.parseBeanDefinitionElement(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:332)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.parseBeanDefinitionElement(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:298)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.parseBeanDefinitions(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:235)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.registerBeanDefinitions(DefaultXmlBeanDefinitionParser.java:184)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.registerBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:188)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:146)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:99)
   at org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:114)
   at org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:82)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.refreshBeanFactory(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:87)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:260)
   at org.springframework.web.context.support.AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.java:133)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:230)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:156)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:48)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3827)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4343)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer.start(StandardHostDeployer.java:830)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:991)
   at org.apache.catalina.manager.ManagerServlet.start(ManagerServlet.java:1322)
   at org.apache.catalina.manager.HTMLManagerServlet.start(HTMLManagerServlet.java:530)
   at org.apache.catalina.manager.HTMLManagerServlet.doGet(HTMLManagerServlet.java:104)
   at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:689)
   at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:237)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:157)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:214)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:104)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:520)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invokeInternal(StandardContextValve.java:198)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:152)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:104)
   at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:540)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:102)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:520)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:137)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:104)
   at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:118)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:102)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:520)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:104)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:520)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:929)
   at org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:160)
   at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:799)
   at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11Protocol.java:705)
   at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:577)
   at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:683)
   at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

[gavinc]

Try upgrading your Tomcat installation to 5.5.x, I believe there are some issues running Tomcat 5.0.x with Java 1.5.

[shikarishambu]

Thanks

[froettger]

Have same problem with Tomcat 5.5.12 on WinXP:

11:17:20,795 ERROR [web.context.ContextLoader] Context initialization failed
java.lang.ThreadDeath
   at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1227)
   at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1187)
…
11:17:20,805 ERROR [[Catalina].[localhost].[/alfresco]] Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
java.lang.ThreadDeath
…

System ist completely new installed…any ideas?

thanks in advance!
F. Roettger

[froettger]

Thread 370 (Missing JDBC-Driver) resolved it!