Tomcat Server fails when startup in Linux

Question

Getting below exception while executing startup.sh for Tomcat. How is this caused and how can I solve it?

Error occurred during initialization of VM
java/lang/NoClassDefFoundError: java/lang/Object

I'm using RedHat Linux, tomcat version is 6.0.26

When I use java simply I face the same exception.

I set the JAVA_HOME and path varaible in /etc/profile as

JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_30  
export JAVA_HOME  

PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH  
export PATH  

Answer 1

look at this blog This is probably java configuration issue.

Make sure JAVA_HOME is setup correctly

Can you post output of this command?

 java -version

Are you able to run any other java app? Or problem just with tomcat?