Thanks Martijn and Markt for reply. > What happens if you do not use a symbolic link? Not tried, as issue is intermittent its would be hard to say. For upgrade purpose we want to use symbolic link.
Is there a known issue with symbolic link, or symbolic link is discouraged? > Are you deploying with the manager web-app? No, we are not using web-app manager. At the time of symbolic link creation tomcat is stopped. Tomcat is started once link is created. On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 12:38 AM, Martijn Bos <mart...@maboc.nl> wrote: > What happens if you do not use a symbolic link? > Are you deploying with the manager web-app? > > Best regards, > Martijn > > > > On 11-09-15 03:31, prashant gothi wrote: > > Tomcat version: 8.0.24 > > OS RHEL 6.6 > > > > > > Just one war file (ascws.war) is deployed under it. We are seeing > > intermittent failure while deploying war file, tomcat logs indicates (zip > > file is empty) exception is mentioned below. > > > > We have verified file is correct (non zero), and only way to recover from > > error is manually delete ascws folder (from webapp folder) and restart > > tomcat. > > > > FYI.. ascws.war is a symbolic link to other location. > > > > ascws is a spring boot based application. > > > > We are not able to figure out what is wrong, any help is much > appreciated. > > > > ========== > > 10-Sep-2015 09:47:32.488 INFO [localhost-startStop-1] > > org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR Deploying web > application > > archive /opt/apache-tomcat/webapps/ascws.war > > 10-Sep-2015 09:47:32.628 SEVERE [localhost-startStop-1] > > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal > > ContainerBase.addChild: start: > > org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component > > > [StandardEngine[Catalina].StandardHost[localhost].StandardContext[/ascws]] > > at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:154) > > at > > > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:725) > > at > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:701) > > at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:717) > > at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:945) > > at > > > org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployWar.run(HostConfig.java:1768) > > at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source) > > at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source) > > at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source) > > at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source) > > at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) > > Caused by: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start > > component [org.apache.catalina.webresources.StandardRoot@1690212] > > at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:154) > > at > > > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.resourcesStart(StandardContext.java:4845) > > at > > > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:4975) > > at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150) > > ... 10 more > > Caused by: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to initialize > > component [org.apache.catalina.webresources.JarResourceSet@5dd3221b] > > at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.init(LifecycleBase.java:106) > > at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:139) > > at > > > org.apache.catalina.webresources.StandardRoot.startInternal(StandardRoot.java:699) > > at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150) > > ... 13 more > > Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: > java.util.zip.ZipException: > > zip file is empty > > at > > > org.apache.catalina.webresources.JarResourceSet.initInternal(JarResourceSet.java:96) > > at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.init(LifecycleBase.java:102) > > ... 16 more > > Caused by: java.util.zip.ZipException: zip file is empty > > at java.util.zip.ZipFile.open(Native Method) > > at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(Unknown Source) > > at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(Unknown Source) > > at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(Unknown Source) > > at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(Unknown Source) > > at > > > org.apache.catalina.webresources.JarResourceSet.initInternal(JarResourceSet.java:88) > > ... 17 more > > > > 10-Sep-2015 09:47:32.630 SEVERE [localhost-startStop-1] > > org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR Error deploying web > > application archive /opt/apache-tomcat/webapps/ascws.war > > java.lang.IllegalStateException: ContainerBase.addChild: start: > > org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component > > > [StandardEngine[Catalina].StandardHost[localhost].StandardContext[/ascws]] > > at > > > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:729) > > at > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:701) > > at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:717) > > at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:945) > > at > > > org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployWar.run(HostConfig.java:1768) > > at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source) > > at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source) > > at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source) > > at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source) > > at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) > > > > 10-Sep-2015 09:47:32.631 INFO [localhost-startStop-1] > > org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR Deployment of web > > application archive /opt/apache-tomcat/webapps/ascws.war has finished in > > 142 ms > > > > > > > > ========== > > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > Prashant > > > >
