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Noel,

On 7/31/18 2:54 AM, noel joseph wrote:
> Hi, I am rather new to tomcat, I've been trying to embed tomcat in
> a java application. I further want to convert this into a java web
> start file so that on deploying it I can have a separate tomcat
> server for my application. The error I am facing is... 
> org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: A child container failed
> during start.

A "child container" usually ends up being something like an
application. Do you have any logging enabled? If so, what does the log
say? If not, try enabling logging and then checking the log. Tomcat is
usually pretty verbose about what happened and what it happened to.

> I tried a couple of methods to solve it but with no use, the error
> still stays. I am using embedded tomcat 8.5.23, I changed it to the
> latest tomcat 9.0.10 which fixed the error but then the server
> didn't start. it just stops at.. WARNING: Creation of secureRandom
> insatnce.....

If you are hanging on creating SecureRandom, your server (or
workstation) might have run out of cryptographic entropy. This can
happen when you restart a server like Tomcat too rapidly and the OS
doesn't have enough time to re-fill the entropy pool.

Can you take a thread dump[1] of the running process the next time
this stalls, just to be sure?

> By reverting back to tomcat 8.5.23 this was solved but again I'm
> facing the child container failed error.
> 
> Please let me know if there is a fix to my issue or if there is a
> better version of tomcat that I can use.

The problem is likely with a component of your application. Logs will
help discover the root of the problem.

The decision to use Tomcat 8.5 or Tomcat 9.0 has more to do with your
risk-aversion. Both versions are still under active development, but
Tomcat 8.5 is more mature and stable (from a code perspective, not
that it is any more reliable than 9.0). Both versions should be
maintained for the next few years.

Hope that helps,
- -chris

[1]
https://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/HowTo#How_do_I_obtain_a_thread_dump_of_my
_running_webapp_.3F
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