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Posted to users@tomcat.apache.org by dave massie <da...@gmail.com> on 2009/05/07 23:51:02 UTC

I am getting a Context initialization failed error

I am setting up tomcat and shibboleth to do SSO sign on with google apps.  I
am trying to use tomcat as a stand alone web server with NO apache httpd.

I am following the iDp installation instructions at:
https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/SHIB2/IdPApacheTomcatPrepare.

I am using the google instruction from:
http://code.google.com/apis/apps/articles/shibboleth2.0.html

I do the install and start tomcat and I get the "Context initialization
failed" error.

The error seems to say it is unable to parse the file
$IDP_HOME/conf/internal.xml -- which I have not touched. So, I assume there
is something in the internal.xml file that refers to one of the files I did
touch and the mistake is really there.

I do not know how to determine where the problem is.

Can anyone suggest something? I would be most grateful for any ideas or
help.

Thanks

Dave Massie

Below are the contents of Catalina.out:

May 7, 2009 4:44:04 PM org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener init
INFO: The APR based Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal
performance in production environments was not found on the
java.library.path:
/usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.5.0/jre/lib/sparc/server:/usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.5.0/jre/lib/sparc:/usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.5.0/jre/../lib/sparc:/usr/lib
May 7, 2009 4:44:04 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol init
INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
May 7, 2009 4:44:09 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol init
INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8443
May 7, 2009 4:44:09 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 7645 ms
May 7, 2009 4:44:09 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start
INFO: Starting service Catalina
May 7, 2009 4:44:09 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/6.0.18
16:44:34.315 [main] ERROR o.s.web.context.ContextLoader - Context
initialization failed
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Unexpected
exception parsing XML document from URL
[file:/var/services/shibboleth-idp/conf/internal.xml]; nested exception is
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
    at
org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:420)
[spring-beans-2.5.5.jar:2.5.5]
    at
org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:342)
[spring-beans-2.5.5.jar:2.5.5]
    at
org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:310)
[spring-beans-2.5.5.jar:2.5.5]
    at
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:143)
[spring-beans-2.5.5.jar:2.5.5]
    at
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:178)
[spring-beans-2.5.5.jar:2.5.5]
    at
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:149)
[spring-beans-2.5.5.jar:2.5.5]
    at
org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:124)
[spring-web-2.5.5.jar:2.5.5]
    at
org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:92)
[spring-web-2.5.5.jar:2.5.5]
    at
org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.refreshBeanFactory(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:123)
[spring-context-2.5.5.jar:2.5.5]
    at
org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.obtainFreshBeanFactory(AbstractApplicationContext.java:423)
[spring-context-2.5.5.jar:2.5.5]
    at
org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:353)
[spring-context-2.5.5.jar:2.5.5]
    at
org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:255)
[spring-web-2.5.5.jar:2.5.5]
    at
org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:199)
[spring-web-2.5.5.jar:2.5.5]
    at
org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:45)
[spring-web-2.5.5.jar:2.5.5]
    at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3843)
[catalina.jar:na]
    at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4342)
[catalina.jar:na]
    at
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:791)
[catalina.jar:na]
    at
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:771)
[catalina.jar:na]
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:525)
[catalina.jar:na]
    at
org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:627)
[catalina.jar:na]
    at
org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.java:553)
[catalina.jar:na]
    at
org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:488)
[catalina.jar:na]
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1149)
[catalina.jar:na]
    at
org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:311)
[catalina.jar:na]
    at
org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:117)
[catalina.jar:na]
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053)
[catalina.jar:na]
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:719)
[catalina.jar:na]
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045)
[catalina.jar:na]
    at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443)
[catalina.jar:na]
    at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:516)
[catalina.jar:na]
    at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:710)
[catalina.jar:na]
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:578)
[catalina.jar:na]
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
[na:1.5.0_17]
    at
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
[na:1.5.0_17]
    at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
[na:1.5.0_17]
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) [na:1.5.0_17]
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:288)
[bootstrap.jar:na]
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:413)
[bootstrap.jar:na]
Caused by: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
    at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.opti.ElementImpl.getAttributes(Unknown
Source) [na:na]
    at org.apache.xerces.util.DOMUtil.getAttrs(Unknown Source) [na:na]
    at
org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.traversers.XSAttributeChecker.checkAttributes(Unknown
Source) [na:na]
    at
org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.traversers.XSAttributeChecker.checkAttributes(Unknown
Source) [na:na]
    at
org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.traversers.XSDAbstractTraverser.traverseAnnotationDecl(Unknown
Source) [na:na]
    at
org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.traversers.XSDAttributeTraverser.traverseNamedAttr(Unknown
Source) [na:na]
    at
org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.traversers.XSDAttributeTraverser.traverseLocal(Unknown
Source) [na:na]
    at
org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.traversers.XSDAbstractTraverser.traverseAttrsAndAttrGrps(Unknown
Source) [na:na]
    at
org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.traversers.XSDComplexTypeTraverser.processComplexContent(Unknown
Source) [na:na]
    at
org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.traversers.XSDComplexTypeTraverser.traverseComplexContent(Unknown
Source) [na:na]
    at
org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.traversers.XSDComplexTypeTraverser.traverseComplexTypeDecl(Unknown
Source) [na:na]
    at
org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.traversers.XSDComplexTypeTraverser.traverseLocal(Unknown
Source) [na:na]
    at
org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.traversers.XSDElementTraverser.traverseNamedElement(Unknown
Source) [na:na]
    at
org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.traversers.XSDElementTraverser.traverseGlobal(Unknown
Source) [na:na]
    at
org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.traversers.XSDHandler.traverseSchemas(Unknown
Source) [na:na]
    at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.traversers.XSDHandler.parseSchema(Unknown
Source) [na:na]
    at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.XMLSchemaLoader.loadSchema(Unknown Source)
[na:na]
    at
org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.XMLSchemaValidator.findSchemaGrammar(Unknown
Source) [na:na]
    at
org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.XMLSchemaValidator.handleStartElement(Unknown
Source) [na:na]
    at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.XMLSchemaValidator.startElement(Unknown
Source) [na:na]
    at
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(Unknown
Source) [na:na]
    at
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl$NSContentDispatcher.scanRootElementHook(Unknown
Source) [na:na]
    at
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown
Source) [na:na]
    at
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown
Source) [na:na]
    at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
[na:na]
    at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
[na:na]
    at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source) [na:na]
    at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser.parse(Unknown Source) [na:na]
    at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(Unknown Source)
[na:na]
    at
org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultDocumentLoader.loadDocument(DefaultDocumentLoader.java:75)
[spring-beans-2.5.5.jar:2.5.5]
    at
org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:396)
[spring-beans-2.5.5.jar:2.5.5]
    at
org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:342)
[spring-beans-2.5.5.jar:2.5.5]
May 7, 2009 4:44:35 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Error listenerStart
May 7, 2009 4:44:35 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Context [/idp] startup failed due to previous errors
May 7, 2009 4:44:46 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol start
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
    at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:288)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:413)
Caused by: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
    at java.util.Collections.synchronizedCollection(Collections.java:1536)
    at java.util.Hashtable.values(Hashtable.java:693)
    at
java.util.ResourceBundle.cleanUpConstructionList(ResourceBundle.java:848)
    at java.util.ResourceBundle.getBundleImpl(ResourceBundle.java:801)
    at java.util.ResourceBundle.getBundle(ResourceBundle.java:549)
    at java.util.logging.Level.getLocalizedName(Level.java:223)
    at java.util.logging.SimpleFormatter.format(SimpleFormatter.java:64)
    at org.apache.juli.FileHandler.publish(FileHandler.java:129)
    at java.util.logging.Logger.log(Logger.java:452)
    at java.util.logging.Logger.doLog(Logger.java:474)
    at java.util.logging.Logger.logp(Logger.java:674)
    at org.apache.juli.logging.DirectJDKLog.log(DirectJDKLog.java:167)
    at org.apache.juli.logging.DirectJDKLog.error(DirectJDKLog.java:135)
    at org.apache.jk.server.JkMain.newHandler(JkMain.java:584)
    at org.apache.jk.server.JkMain.start(JkMain.java:318)
    at org.apache.jk.server.JkCoyoteHandler.start(JkCoyoteHandler.java:144)
    at org.apache.catalina.connector.Connector.start(Connector.java:1131)
    at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:531)
    at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:710)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:578)
    ... 6 more

Re: I am getting a Context initialization failed error

Posted by dave massie <da...@gmail.com>.
It was the heap space. I had entered a value but forgot to put the "m" after
it. So, I guess it was allocating 512 bytes. No wonder it failed.

Thanks for your help!

Dave

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 6:31 AM, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote:

> dave massie wrote:
> > I do not know how to determine where the problem is.
> >
> > Can anyone suggest something? I would be most grateful for any ideas or
> > help.
> > INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/6.0.18
> > 16:44:34.315 [main] ERROR o.s.web.context.ContextLoader - Context
> > initialization failed
> > org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException:
> Unexpected
> > exception parsing XML document from URL
> > [file:/var/services/shibboleth-idp/conf/internal.xml]; nested exception
> is
> > java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
>
> Increasing the allocated heap space would be the first place to start.
>
> Mark
>
>
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Re: I am getting a Context initialization failed error

Posted by Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org>.
dave massie wrote:
> I do not know how to determine where the problem is.
> 
> Can anyone suggest something? I would be most grateful for any ideas or
> help.
> INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/6.0.18
> 16:44:34.315 [main] ERROR o.s.web.context.ContextLoader - Context
> initialization failed
> org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Unexpected
> exception parsing XML document from URL
> [file:/var/services/shibboleth-idp/conf/internal.xml]; nested exception is
> java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space

Increasing the allocated heap space would be the first place to start.

Mark


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