Issue: Catalina.start: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to Start Component
This is an issue I faced with Tomcat 7 while starting the server. Usually, we start the server from the Eclipse server configuration during the development process.
The server was not able to start and was not ready to provide the service. It was trying to run for a few seconds but failed with a Windows alert.
Console logs :-
Nov 29, 2014 7:16:46 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
SEVERE: Catalina.start:
org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component [StandardServer[8005]]
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:154)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:675)
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:322)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:450)
Caused by: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component [StandardService[Catalina]]
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:154)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.startInternal(StandardServer.java:732)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
... 7 more
Caused by: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component [StandardEngine[Catalina]]
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:154)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.startInternal(StandardService.java:443)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
... 9 more
Caused by: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: A child container failed during start
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.startInternal(ContainerBase.java:1136)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.startInternal(StandardEngine.java:302)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
... 11 more
Caused By - There may be many reason , but I found mismatching of JRE versions. This is likely a JVM class loader issue. If you have multiple JAR files in the same directory with the same class in them , there is no defined order in which the JAR files will be searched. My installed JVM was version JDK 6 but my tomcat configuration was JDK 7.Check your server runtime configuration on Eclipse for JDK version.
Also I did the cleanup for the server setting in Eclipse.For cleanup , right click on server configuration and click on clean.Now it works for me.
