Error launching tomcat6 on opensuse 11.1

knightdogg · December 1, 2009, 11:46pm

Hi all!

Tomcat6 has been installed then removed then installed again with YAST.
As far as java is concerned, there are java_1_6_0_openjdk and java_1_6_0_openjdk_plugin, java_1_6_0_sun_plugin, java_1_6_0_sun, java_1_6_0_sun_jdbc packages.

echo $JAVA_HOME => /usr/lib/jvm/jre
that is a link to /etc/alternatives/jre
that is a link to /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk

When I start Tomcat6, there are several errors in the catalina.out logfile.
The first one:
1 déc. 2009 23:26:59 org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProtocol init
GRAVE: Erreur à l’initialisation du point de contact
java.lang.Exception: Socket bind failed: [22] Invalid argument

Second one:
1 déc. 2009 23:26:59 org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
GRAVE: Catalina.start
LifecycleException: L’initialisation du gestionnaire de protocole a échoué: java.lang.Exception: Socket bind failed: [22] Invalid argument

And http://localhost:8080 is unreachable with my browser, neither http://localhost:8005.

And a nestat command gives me this:
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 2995/httpd2-prefork
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:8005 :::* LISTEN 15130/java

Has anyone got an idea about how to solve my problem ?

Thank you very much.

ken_yap · December 2, 2009, 12:00am

Have you checked that /etc/tomcat6/server.xml contains a correct declaration for the connector for port 8080?

knightdogg · December 2, 2009, 9:51pm

Thank You for your answer ken_yap.
According to me everything looks OK. I did not change anything.
There is this line for the Server section:
<Server port=“8005” shutdown=“SHUTDOWN”>

And then these lines for the connector section in the server section:
<Connector port=“8080” protocol=“HTTP/1.1”
connectionTimeout=“20000”
redirectPort=“8443” />

It should work, souldn’t it ?

ken_yap · December 2, 2009, 10:10pm

I forgot exactly what I did but I see that on a working server, I didn’t use the supplied server.xml but created a new one. I think the meaning of the directives changed a bit. It looks like the main difference is the <Server> element has no port declaration. Here’s the one I used:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<Server>
  <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.mbeans.ServerLifecycleListener" />
  <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.mbeans.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener" />
  <GlobalNamingResources>
    <Environment name="simpleValue" type="java.lang.Integer"
    value="30" />
    <Resource auth="Container"
    description="User database that can be updated and saved"
    name="UserDatabase" type="org.apache.catalina.UserDatabase"
    factory="org.apache.catalina.users.MemoryUserDatabaseFactory"
    pathname="conf/tomcat-users.xml" />
  </GlobalNamingResources>
  <Service name="Catalina">
    <Connector acceptCount="100" connectionTimeout="20000"
    disableUploadTimeout="true" port="8080" redirectPort="8443"
    maxSpareThreads="75" maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25">
    </Connector>
    <Connector port="8009" protocol="AJP/1.3"
    protocolHandlerClassName="org.apache.jk.server.JkCoyoteHandler"
    redirectPort="8443"></Connector>
    <Engine defaultHost="localhost" name="Catalina">
      <Host appBase="webapps" name="localhost">
        <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger"
        prefix="localhost_log" suffix=".txt" />
      </Host>
      <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger"
      prefix="catalina_log" suffix=".txt" />
      <Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.UserDatabaseRealm" />
    </Engine>
  </Service>
</Server>

knightdogg · December 2, 2009, 10:43pm

I tried “<server>” instead of the line in the previous version with the port that is specified: it did not work (http://localhost:8080 still unreachable).
I tried your server.xml, and it did not work either (http://localhost:8080 still unreachable).

And when I gat back to the original server.xml, that’s the errors the catalina.out file contains:

2 déc. 2009 22:41:14 org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProtocol init
GRAVE: Erreur ??? l’initialisation du point de contact
java.lang.Exception: Socket bind failed: [22] Invalid argument
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AprEndpoint.init(AprEndpoint.java:612)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProtocol.init(Http11AprProtocol.java:107)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.Connector.initialize(Connector.java:1058)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.initialize(StandardService.java:677)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.initialize(StandardServer.java:795)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:530)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:550)
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:616)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.load(Bootstrap.java:260)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:412)
2 déc. 2009 22:41:14 org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
GRAVE: Catalina.start
LifecycleException: L’initialisation du gestionnaire de protocole a ???chou???: java.lang.Exception: Socket bind failed: [22] Invali
d argument
at org.apache.catalina.connector.Connector.initialize(Connector.java:1060)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.initialize(StandardService.java:677)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.initialize(StandardServer.java:795)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:530)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:550)
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:616)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.load(Bootstrap.java:260)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:412)
2 déc. 2009 22:41:14 org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 885 ms

ken_yap · December 2, 2009, 10:53pm

Do you already have something listening on port 8080? Do you have some sort of limitation on Tomcat like apparmor?

Sorry, no more ideas.

knightdogg · December 2, 2009, 11:06pm

It looks as if nothing is listening on port 8080.
Concerning apparmor, I searched what was installed using YAST. I found this:
apparmor-docs
apparmor-parser
apparmor-profiles
apparmor-utils
libapparmor1
libapparmor-devel
pam-aparmor
perl-libaparmor
yast2-aparmor

twelveeighty · December 3, 2009, 6:01am

I have Tomcat6 on 11.1 running production systems for years, so this must be something of a configuration problem on your side.

Let’s start at the beginning: how are you starting tomcat? Can you post the console feedback if you run the <tomcat-dir>/bin/startup.sh from a console? It should log the Java environment variables and the JVM used.

knightdogg · December 3, 2009, 10:24pm

Hi twelveeighty!

Usually I start tomcat with the GUI of the system services. A message was displayed saying tomcat6 started succesfully.
I also execute this command:
/etc/init.d/tomcat6 start

And the result was:
Starting Tomcat (/usr/share/tomcat6)
Then I checked:
ps aux | grep tomcat

And it looks OK:
tomcat 3815 75.9 1.0 1250428 44768 pts/2 Sl 22:15 0:06 /etc/alternatives/jre/bin/java -classpath :/usr/share/tomcat6/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/share/tomcat6/bin/tomcat-juli.jar:/usr/share/java/commons-daemon.jar -Dcatalina.base=/usr/share/tomcat6 -Dcatalina.home=/usr/share/tomcat6 -Djava.endorsed.dirs= -Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/cache/tomcat6/temp -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/usr/share/tomcat6/conf/logging.properties -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start

But nothing was listening on the port 8080 or 8005:
netstat -lpn | grep 8080 and netstat -lpn | grep 8005 returned nothing.

instead of when I start tomcat using the GUI: java listens on port 8005.

twelveeighty · December 3, 2009, 10:36pm

Can you stop it from the system services (or use ‘rctomcat6 stop’) and then go to /usr/share/tomcat6/bin and run the ./startup.sh from a shell - you’ll probably have to run it as root. Paste the results back here (the environment listing). It’ll help with troubleshooting. To stop it, run ./shutdown.sh.

In general, I’ve had problems in the past with running Tomcat from the distro packages and it becomes a real pain if you want to have multiple instances running. I simply use the download from the tomcat site and unpack and run it locally.

Also, can you run the following command and paste the results back here - this will tell how many JVMs are running on your machine:

ps aux | grep java

knightdogg · December 3, 2009, 10:46pm

Actually the /usr/share/tomcat6/bin directory contains only following files:
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 18040 juin 13 16:37 bootstrap-6.0.18.jar
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 déc. 1 22:48 bootstrap.jar → bootstrap-6.0.18.jar
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 2374 juin 13 16:37 catalina-tasks.xml
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 19758 juin 13 16:37 tomcat-juli-6.0.18.jar
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 déc. 1 22:48 tomcat-juli.jar → tomcat-juli-6.0.18.jar

There are not startup.sh neither shutdown.sh.

But the ps -aux | grep java command gives me nothing… Perhaps that’s the problem ?

twelveeighty · December 3, 2009, 10:59pm

It’s been since 10.3 that I tried the distro version of tomcat. I think they put the files in “non-standard” locations. Can you do the following:

rpm -ql tomcat6

If that doesn’t return anything (I’m guessing the name of the rpm package here), do a ‘rpm -qa | grep tomcat’ first to see what the package name is and then run the 'rpm -ql ’ against it.

Alternatively, paste the contents of the tomcat6 script in here (should be in /etc/init.d/tomcat6.

Basically, I am trying to get you to run tomcat “interactively” so we can see the screen echo.

Alternatively, we may be wasting our time here - I would highly recommend downloading the zip from the tomcat site, unpack it into your home folder and run the bin/startup.sh. If that runs fine, something is wrong/happening with the distro version.

knightdogg · December 3, 2009, 11:07pm

OK, thanks.
I will try this, since I don’t want us to waste our time with such silly things.
I will tell you if it works better.

knightdogg · December 3, 2009, 11:34pm

There is stille an error, and the same one.
I installed tomcat6 in my home directory.
Then I started it using startup.sh command.
The URL was unreachable and the first lines of the catalina.out file was these:

3 déc. 2009 23:30:19 org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener init
INFO: Loaded APR based Apache Tomcat Native library 1.1.14.
3 déc. 2009 23:30:19 org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener init
INFO: APR capabilities: IPv6 [true], sendfile [true], accept filters [false], random [true].
3 déc. 2009 23:30:19 org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProtocol init
GRAVE: Erreur à l’initialisation du point de contact
java.lang.Exception: Socket bind failed: [22] Invalid argument
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AprEndpoint.init(AprEndpoint.java:623)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProtocol.init(Http11AprProtocol.java:107)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.Connector.initialize(Connector.java:1058)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.initialize(StandardService.java:677)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.initialize(StandardServer.java:795)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:535)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:555)
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:616)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.load(Bootstrap.java:260)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:412)
3 déc. 2009 23:30:19 org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load

Any other ideas ?
I really don’t know what the problem is.

twelveeighty · December 4, 2009, 4:09am

I’m reading your post on my blackberry, so I may have missed it, but can you paste those five lines that get echoed in the console window when you run the ./startup.sh? They show the JDK, JRE, etc locations as Tomcat has found them.

The error trace log is the same as shown before. I need to see your Java environment variables as Tomcat sees them.

And, as I read back your earlier post, you issued the wrong ps command, there is no dash - before aux:

ps aux | grep java

PVince81 · December 4, 2009, 9:23am

Not sure whether it can help, but I found this link:
Tomcat fail to start : Socket bind failed: 22 - Invalid argument - tomcat archive

That guy seems to have a similar issue on Ubuntu.

The issue is related to a bug in APR in tomcat, also related to the native tomcat library (libtcnative).

Which version of libtcnative do you have ?

I have the following package versions on openSUSE 11.2, and it works:

tomcat6-6.0.20-24.5.noarch
libtcnative-1-0-1.3.3-24.5.i586

knightdogg · December 4, 2009, 11:02pm

Hi twelveeighty !!
Here is what is printed in the window when I execute the ./startup.sh command:
Using CATALINA_BASE: /home/william/Téléchargements/apache-tomcat-6.0.20
Using CATALINA_HOME: /home/william/Téléchargements/apache-tomcat-6.0.20
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /home/william/Téléchargements/apache-tomcat-6.0.20/temp
Using JRE_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java/jre

knightdogg · December 4, 2009, 11:06pm

Hi PVince81,

My libtcnative version seems to be 1-0-1.2.12-14.7-i586.
And tomcat6 version seems to be 6.0.20.

twelveeighty · December 5, 2009, 2:37am

You’ll want to either disable ipv6 support, or your libcnative.

I’ve never had this issue and I never disabled ipv6. Did you install / configure something to get the libcnative library to kick in?

There’s tons of hits on this particular problem.

Google: java.lang.Exception: Socket bind failed: [22] Invalid argument

You’ll find that the consensus is to disable ipv6.

knightdogg · December 9, 2009, 9:51pm

Hi Twelveeight!

I tried to do disable ipv6 following the steps that are described here:
SDB:Disabling IPv6 completely - openSUSE

I reboot my computer, I lanched the startup.sh command, but http://localhost:8080 is still unreachable and the catalina.out file contained the same error description:

9 déc. 2009 21:41:31 org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener init
INFO: Loaded APR based Apache Tomcat Native library 1.1.14.
9 déc. 2009 21:41:32 org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener init
INFO: APR capabilities: IPv6 [true], sendfile [true], accept filters [false], random [true].
9 déc. 2009 21:41:32 org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProtocol init
GRAVE: Erreur à l’initialisation du point de contact
org.apache.tomcat.jni.Error: Address family not supported by protocol
at org.apache.tomcat.jni.Socket.create(Native Method)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AprEndpoint.init(AprEndpoint.java:612)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProtocol.init(Http11AprProtocol.java:107)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.Connector.initialize(Connector.java:1058)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.initialize(StandardService.java:677)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.initialize(StandardServer.java:795)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:535)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:555)
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:616)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.load(Bootstrap.java:260)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:412)

IPV6 should really be disabled since I have “inet6” when I run the ifconfig command.