Re: Problem starting Tomcat Windows service

[Serge Fonville <se...@gmail.com>]

Hi,
Perhaps
http://www.nabble.com/Tomcat-5.5-and-x64-Windows-to8430335.html#a20310083 might
help.

Yo can download the x64 version of the service exe and use that instead.

Hope this helps

Regards,

Serge Fonville

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 2:37 PM, André Warnier <aw...@ice-sa.com> wrote:

> Hi.
>
> A colleague recently downloaded the Tomcat 5.5.27 "service installer" from
> the official Tomcat site and tried to install it on a Windows XP
> workstation. But considering that this is a 64-bit XP system, the Tomcat
> service refused to start.
> (The installed Java is a Sun java 1.6.0 64-bit JDK or JRE).
>
> Being an assiduous reader of this forum, I of course knew why, and
> following the usually excellent advice given here, I told him to de-install
> the service version, and instead download and install the zip version, and
> consequently install it as a service using the service.bat script.
> That part worked nicely.
> However, when trying to start the service later on, something goes awry,
> and the service does not start.  The Windows Event logger is pretty useless,
> mentioning an error of type 0/0 or similar.
> In the Tomcat logs directory however, I find the file
> jakarta_service.20090210, with the contents below.
>
> Anyone have any idea what's wrong ?
> (I have this suspicion that even with the zip version, I need to get the
> 64-bit version of procrun somewhere else, yes ?)
>
>
> [2009-02-10 12:29:00] [info] Procrun (2.0.4.0) started
> [2009-02-10 12:29:00] [info] Running Service...
> [2009-02-10 12:29:00] [info] Starting service...
> [2009-02-10 12:29:01] [174  javajni.c] [error] %1 is not a valid Win32
> application.
> [2009-02-10 12:29:01] [994  prunsrv.c] [error] Failed creating java
> C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_12\jre\bin\server\jvm.dll
> [2009-02-10 12:29:01] [1269 prunsrv.c] [error] ServiceStart returned 1
> [2009-02-10 12:29:01] [info] Run service finished.
> [2009-02-10 12:29:01] [info] Procrun finished.
>
>
>
>
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