Friday, December 02, 2005

Tomcat 4 Fails to Start after Removing an Application

Tomcat 4 fails to start. Last time, before you shut down, you removed an application. On the next boot, the *first* error in Catalina.out says:

Catalina.start: LifecycleException: Context startup failed due to previous errors

What has happened is that there is a context in conf/server.xml (likely declaring a database connection) that references the application that was removed. The solution is to remove the context or comment it out.

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