Hi,

Just installed Tomcat, JDK and xml-commons apis, but Tomcat still refuses to start

/usr/bin/rebuild-jar-repository: error: Failed to set JAVACMD

Any idea? Thanks

Diego

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De: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] En nombre de Steve Traylen
Enviado el: jueves, 14 de febrero de 2008 10:15
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CC: Steve Traylen; Scientific Linux users mailing list; [log in to unmask]
Asunto: Re: Getting Tomcat5 to run under SL 5.1


On Feb 13, 2008, at 4:14 PM, A.K.Srikanth wrote:

> To provide a bit more sequence info here:
>     I installed SL 5.1 (clean install) where I asked for tomcat5 and
> sister packages to be installed
>     Then tried to get Tomcat5 running. I got a complaint about xml-
> xxxxx jar missing. I did a yum with the jar name and that updated
> fine.
>     Then I realized that jdk-1.5.0-14 was not installed even though
> I could swear I asked for it.

This is quite possible.... The package xml-commons-jaxp-1.3-apis  as
needed by tomcat obsoletes jdk-1.5.0 ...

Steve

>      So I went to Add/Remove Programs and checked it again and asked
> that it be installed. It downloaded and installed fine.
>
>     Then I tried to get tomcat5 running and I get the problem
> mentioned in the email below
>
> Thanks,
> Sri
>
>
> A.K.Srikanth wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>   Have any of you got Tomcat5 running on SL 5.1 working
>> successfully? Tomcat5 fails due to the following error:
>>
>> Using CATALINA_BASE:   /usr/share/tomcat5
>> Using CATALINA_HOME:   /usr/share/tomcat5
>> Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/share/tomcat5/temp
>> Using JRE_HOME:
>> sun.misc.InvalidJarIndexException: Invalid index
>>     at sun.misc.URLClassPath
>> $JarLoader.getResource(URLClassPath.java:769)
>>     at sun.misc.URLClassPath
>> $JarLoader.getResource(URLClassPath.java:682)
>>     at sun.misc.URLClassPath.getResource(URLClassPath.java:161)
>>     at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:192)
>>     at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
>>     at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
>>     at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
>>     at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:251)
>>     at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:319)
>>     at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
>>
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated. My apologies if this question has
>> already been asked before and answered.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sri
>

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