Hi, I just changed the tomcat from 6.0.35 to 6.0.36, by simply changing the symlink from the apache-6.0.35 to the apache 6.0.36-folder and cleaning work-directory. After that the deployment of warfiles fails with following Exception:
Nov 08, 2012 6:38:50 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig init SEVERE: Exception fixing docBase for context [/testapp] java.io.IOException: Unable to create the directory [/data/tomcat/webapps/testapp/WEB-INF/web.xml] at org.apache.catalina.startup.ExpandWar.expand(ExpandWar.java:168) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.fixDocBase(ContextConfig.java:886) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.init(ContextConfig.java:1021) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java:279) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:142) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.init(StandardContext.java:5707) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4449) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:799) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:779) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:601) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:943) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:778) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:504) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1317) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:324) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:142) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1065) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:840) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1057) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:463) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:525) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:754) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:595) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:289) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:414) If I switch back to 6.0.35 the warfile testapp.war will be deployed normally. Greetings, Meik