Hello I have installed Tomcat 3.2b8, JavaSDKSE1.3, Windows NT 4 Service Pack 6 and everything was running fine. Then a few days ago the system crashes with the following exception: Including all jars in ..\lib in your CLASSPATH. Using CLASSPATH: ..\classes;..\lib\ant.jar;..\lib\jasper.jar;..\lib\jaxp.jar;..\lib\parser.ja r;..\lib\servlet.jar;..\lib\webserver.jar;D:\DEVELOP\JavaSDKSE1.3.0\lib\tool s.jar Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError: java.util.MissingResourceException: Can't find bundle for base name org.apache.tomcat.resources.LocalStrings, locale de_DE at java.util.ResourceBundle.throwMissingResourceException(ResourceBundle.java:7 07) at java.util.ResourceBundle.getBundleImpl(ResourceBundle.java:679) at java.util.ResourceBundle.getBundle(ResourceBundle.java:546) at org.apache.tomcat.util.StringManager.<init>(StringManager.java:115) at org.apache.tomcat.util.StringManager.getManager(StringManager.java:260) at org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat.<clinit>(Tomcat.java:24) It doesn't matter if I reinstall tomcat, I get the same result. Sometimes after rebooting the system, reinstalling Java and Tomcat, it works for a couple of minutes until I restart Tomcat. Then I get the MissingRessourceException again. WHY ? Any help would be apreciated Thorsten BIOBASE Biological Databases / Biologische Datenbanken GmbH ----------------------------------------------------------- Thorsten Gross Fon: +49 (0) 531 260 36 27 Mascheroder Weg 1b Fax: +49 (0) 531 260 36 71 D-38124 Braunschweig E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Germany URL: http://www.biobase.de