I am running Tomcat 5.5.23 on a Windows XP machine with JDK6. I have only one webapp (others are standard webapps packaged with Tomcat). During Catalina bootstrap, I see the null pointer exception (trace below) that looks quite like #39631 (SEE http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39631).
I do not have any libraries in endorsed or shared directories. I am using ver 1.2.14 of Log4j, ver 1.0.4 of commons logging and commons logging API (commons-logging-1.0.4.jar, log4j-1.2.14.jar, commons-logging-api-1.0.4.jar). Is this caused by incompatible jar versions? I am not sure how to troubleshoot this further. Pl help, Thanks, /U SEVERE: Context [/<MASKED>] startup failed due to previous errors Mar 26, 2007 9:08:38 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext processTlds SEVERE: Error reading tld listeners java.lang.NullPointerException java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.log4j.Category.isEnabledFor(Category.java:746) at org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Log4JLogger.isTraceEnabled(Log4JLogge r.java:327) at org.apache.catalina.startup.TldConfig.tldScanResourcePaths(TldConfig. java:582) at org.apache.catalina.startup.TldConfig.execute(TldConfig.java:283) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.processTlds(StandardContext. java:4307) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4 144) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase .java:760) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:74 0) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:544) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.ja va:626) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.j ava:553) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:488 ) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1138) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java :311) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(Lifecycl eSupport.java:120) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1022) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:736) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1014) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443 ) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:4 48) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:700 ) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:552) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:295) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:433) Mar 26, 2007 9:08:38 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig processDefault WebConfig SEVERE: Parse error in default web.xml --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]