Wade
Wade

Reputation: 125

Tomcat 7.0.26 failing to start jsvc

So I had a tomcat 7.026 smoothly running on a CentOS 6.7 Server on its default port 8080.
Recently it stopped running on its own.
Here are the out put of each:

sudo service easy-tomcat7 start


Failed to start Tomcat


sudo service easy-tomcat7 status

pidof: invalid options on command line!
pidof: invalid options on command line!
jsvc.exec is stopped

ps aux | grep tomcat


root 4293 1.4 2.3 5939868 389996 pts/0 Sl 14:16 0:14 /usr/java/jdk1.7.0_05/bin/java -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/usr/share/apache-tomcat-7.0.26/conf/logging.properties -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/usr/share/apache-tomcat-7.0.26/endorsed -classpath /usr/share/apache-tomcat-7.0.26/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/share/apache-tomcat-7.0.26/bin/tomcat-juli.jar -Dcatalina.base=/usr/share/apache-tomcat-7.0.26 -Dcatalina.home=/usr/share/apache-tomcat-7.0.26 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/usr/share/apache-tomcat-7.0.26/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start


root 16821 0.0 0.0 8548 384 ? Ss 14:30 0:00 jsvc.exec -user tomcat -cwd /usr/local/easy/share/easy-tomcat7 -pidfile /var/run/easy-tomcat7.pid -cp /usr/local/easy/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/local/easy/bin/tomcat-juli.jar:/usr/local/easy/share/java/commons-daemon.jar -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/usr/local/easy/share/easy-tomcat7/endorsed -outfile /var/log/easy-tomcat7/catalina.out -errfile /var/log/easy-tomcat7/catalina.err -verbose org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start


tomcat 16823 9.4 3.5 6190668 574344 ? Sl 14:30 0:15 jsvc.exec -user tomcat -cwd /usr/local/easy/share/easy-tomcat7 -pidfile /var/run/easy-tomcat7.pid -cp /usr/local/easy/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/local/easy/bin/tomcat-juli.jar:/usr/local/easy/share/java/commons-daemon.jar -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/usr/local/easy/share/easy-tomcat7/endorsed -outfile /var/log/easy-tomcat7/catalina.out -errfile /var/log/easy-tomcat7/catalina.err -verbose org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start


Killing those processes aren't helping , as well as service start, restart, force-reload ... etc


Finally here's the script of easy-tomcat7

. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

case $1 in
    start)
        file=/usr/sbin/starttomcat
        # no way to start tomcat
        if [ ! -x $file ]; then
            echo "Missing $file"
            ERROR=1
        else
            # tomcat disabled by whm
            if [ -e /etc/tomcatdisable ]; then
                echo "Tomcat is disabled by cPanel/WHM"
                ERROR=0
            else
                ERROR=0

                status jsvc.exec &>/dev/null

                # tomcat already running
                if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
                    echo "Tomcat already started"
                # start tomcat, not running
                else
                    $file &>/dev/null
                    sleep 1 # just to make sure
                    status jsvc.exec &>/dev/null

                    if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
                        ERROR=0
                    else
                        echo "Failed to start Tomcat"
                        ERROR=1
                    fi
                fi
            fi
        fi
        ;;
    stop)
        file=/usr/sbin/stoptomcat
        if [ ! -x $file ]; then
            echo "Missing $file"
            ERROR=1
        else
            $file
            ERROR=0
        fi
        ;;
    restart)
        file=/usr/local/cpanel/scripts/restartsrv_tomcat
        if [ ! -x $file ]; then
            echo "Missing $file"
            ERROR=1
        else
            $file
        fi
        ;;
    status|fullstatus)
        status jsvc.exec
        ;;
    *)
        echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status|fullstatus}"
        ERROR=2 esac

exit $ERROR

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1181

Answers (1)

Wade
Wade

Reputation: 125

I finally resolved the issue.

After running

java -version

It seemed that the Java Installation was somehow corrupted so all I had to do was to uninstall and re-install Java and that made the trick for me.

Upvotes: 0

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