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Posted to users@tomcat.apache.org by Konstantin Kolinko <kn...@gmail.com> on 2008/10/01 02:56:49 UTC
Re: Tomcat stops with error after calling setclasspath.bat
2008/9/30 Bai Shen <ba...@gmail.com>:
> Okay, if I keep this up I'll be able to fit both feet in my mouth.
>
> Apparently setclasspath.bat does see the variables set in setenv.bat It was
> my troubleshooting method that was faulty.
>
> Basically, the problem boils down to the fact that right after
> setclasspath.bat is call, there's the following line in catalina.bat
>
> if errorlevel 1 goto end
>
> That's the last line I see before everthing stops. I had assumed there was a
> problem with the setclasspath.bat file, but the last line from that is goto
> end, which AFAIK, skips over the exit /b 1
>
> So for some reason, on Windows 2000 and 2003 Server only, Tomcat won't
> start. I get no error at all. I had to remove the echo off statements to
> see that it was stopping after setclasspath.bat
>
> Hopefully this will be the last of me sticking my foot in my mouth. :)
>
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Bai Shen <ba...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Okay, I feel silly now. I jus realized that XP returns Windows_NT from the
>> OS variable. And my Tomcat install works fine in XP. So it's apparently
>> something besides the setlocal. Which leaves me back at square one. :(
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Bai Shen <ba...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I use setenv.bat to point tomcat to my JRE and set some other options.
>>> However, when running on an OS that returns Windows_NT from the OS
>>> environment variable, Tomcat sets all of the batch files to setlocal.
>>> Therefore, when setclasspath.bat is run, it doesn't see any of the variables
>>> that were set by setenv.bat Now I know I could set them globally for the
>>> machine or user, but I'd rather not do that. I also don't want to edit the
>>> tomcat bat files to turn off the setlocal commands.
>>>
>>> Speaking of which, does anyone know what the reasoning behind the setlocal
>>> is in the first place?
>>>
>>> Any advice would be appreciated. TIA.
>>>
>>
>
You should mention what tomcat version you are trying to use.
If it is not the latest one, try *.bat files from the latest version.
I reckon that I once stumbled into misbehaving bat files, that
were also complaining about some wrong goto. I fixed them in couple
of minutes by adding some blank lines or removing trailing spaces --
I do not remember how exactly, and what were those files, and I do
not see any remnants lying around.
I suggest you to set "echo on" in all those bat files and
capture their output in a file. Maybe there are some oddities
there, like too many quotes, backslashes, expanded variables.
Best regards,
Konstantin Kolinko
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Re: Tomcat stops with error after calling setclasspath.bat
Posted by Bai Shen <ba...@gmail.com>.
Ah-hah! I found the problem! Apparently, if you try to unset an
environment variable that's not set, 2k and 2k3 return an error. I added a
line setting JAVA_HOME in the setenv file and then when I set JAVA_HOME to
nothing, I don't get the error. So now I just need to have it check if
JAVA_HOME is actually set before calling set JAVA_HOME=
Well, that's some good news. I wonder why it's different than the way XP
works.
Thanks to everyone who responded.
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Konstantin Kolinko
<kn...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 2008/10/1 Bai Shen <ba...@gmail.com>:
> > I'm using 6.0.18, which unless they just put out a new version is the
> > latest.
> >
> > I've already turned the echo on. If you look at my first post, I
> commented
> > what happened in the batch files. I can't see anything that would throw
> an
> > error.
> >
> > I've enclosed the results of my running catalina start without the echo
> off
> > statements.
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Konstantin Kolinko <
> knst.kolinko@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> 2008/9/30 Bai Shen <ba...@gmail.com>:
> >> > Okay, if I keep this up I'll be able to fit both feet in my mouth.
> >> >
> >> > Apparently setclasspath.bat does see the variables set in setenv.bat
> It
> >> > was
> >> > my troubleshooting method that was faulty.
> >> >
> >> > Basically, the problem boils down to the fact that right after
> >> > setclasspath.bat is call, there's the following line in catalina.bat
> >> >
> >> > if errorlevel 1 goto end
> >> >
> >> > That's the last line I see before everthing stops. I had assumed there
> >> > was a
> >> > problem with the setclasspath.bat file, but the last line from that is
> >> > goto
> >> > end, which AFAIK, skips over the exit /b 1
> >> >
> >> > So for some reason, on Windows 2000 and 2003 Server only, Tomcat won't
> >> > start. I get no error at all. I had to remove the echo off
> statements
> >> > to
> >> > see that it was stopping after setclasspath.bat
> >> >
> >> > Hopefully this will be the last of me sticking my foot in my mouth. :)
> >> >
> >> > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Bai Shen <ba...@gmail.com>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Okay, I feel silly now. I jus realized that XP returns Windows_NT
> from
> >> >> the
> >> >> OS variable. And my Tomcat install works fine in XP. So it's
> >> >> apparently
> >> >> something besides the setlocal. Which leaves me back at square one.
> >> >> :(
> >> >>
> >> >> Any suggestions?
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Bai Shen <ba...@gmail.com>
> >> >> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >>> I use setenv.bat to point tomcat to my JRE and set some other
> options.
> >> >>> However, when running on an OS that returns Windows_NT from the OS
> >> >>> environment variable, Tomcat sets all of the batch files to
> setlocal.
> >> >>> Therefore, when setclasspath.bat is run, it doesn't see any of the
> >> >>> variables
> >> >>> that were set by setenv.bat Now I know I could set them globally
> for
> >> >>> the
> >> >>> machine or user, but I'd rather not do that. I also don't want to
> >> >>> edit the
> >> >>> tomcat bat files to turn off the setlocal commands.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Speaking of which, does anyone know what the reasoning behind the
> >> >>> setlocal
> >> >>> is in the first place?
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Any advice would be appreciated. TIA.
> >> >>>
> >> >>
> >> >
> >>
> >> You should mention what tomcat version you are trying to use.
> >>
> >> If it is not the latest one, try *.bat files from the latest version.
> >>
> >> I reckon that I once stumbled into misbehaving bat files, that
> >> were also complaining about some wrong goto. I fixed them in couple
> >> of minutes by adding some blank lines or removing trailing spaces --
> >> I do not remember how exactly, and what were those files, and I do
> >> not see any remnants lying around.
> >>
> >> I suggest you to set "echo on" in all those bat files and
> >> capture their output in a file. Maybe there are some oddities
> >> there, like too many quotes, backslashes, expanded variables.
> >>
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Konstantin Kolinko
> >>
>
> I was able to reproduce your issue. Thanks to the log that you attached.
>
> Solution: add
> exit /b 0
> to the end of either your setenv.bat or to the end of setclasspath.bat
>
> As you already found, the cause is your "set JAVA_HOME=".
>
> It makes errorlevel=1, and the errorlevel value does not change during
> all those further lines of execution, including going in and out of
> setclasspath.bat.
>
> Confirmation: add
> echo %errorlevel%
> before and after that set JAVA_HOME= line
>
> Best regards,
> Konstantin Kolinko
>
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Re: Tomcat stops with error after calling setclasspath.bat
Posted by Konstantin Kolinko <kn...@gmail.com>.
2008/10/1 Bai Shen <ba...@gmail.com>:
> I'm using 6.0.18, which unless they just put out a new version is the
> latest.
>
> I've already turned the echo on. If you look at my first post, I commented
> what happened in the batch files. I can't see anything that would throw an
> error.
>
> I've enclosed the results of my running catalina start without the echo off
> statements.
>
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Konstantin Kolinko <kn...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> 2008/9/30 Bai Shen <ba...@gmail.com>:
>> > Okay, if I keep this up I'll be able to fit both feet in my mouth.
>> >
>> > Apparently setclasspath.bat does see the variables set in setenv.bat It
>> > was
>> > my troubleshooting method that was faulty.
>> >
>> > Basically, the problem boils down to the fact that right after
>> > setclasspath.bat is call, there's the following line in catalina.bat
>> >
>> > if errorlevel 1 goto end
>> >
>> > That's the last line I see before everthing stops. I had assumed there
>> > was a
>> > problem with the setclasspath.bat file, but the last line from that is
>> > goto
>> > end, which AFAIK, skips over the exit /b 1
>> >
>> > So for some reason, on Windows 2000 and 2003 Server only, Tomcat won't
>> > start. I get no error at all. I had to remove the echo off statements
>> > to
>> > see that it was stopping after setclasspath.bat
>> >
>> > Hopefully this will be the last of me sticking my foot in my mouth. :)
>> >
>> > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Bai Shen <ba...@gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> Okay, I feel silly now. I jus realized that XP returns Windows_NT from
>> >> the
>> >> OS variable. And my Tomcat install works fine in XP. So it's
>> >> apparently
>> >> something besides the setlocal. Which leaves me back at square one.
>> >> :(
>> >>
>> >> Any suggestions?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Bai Shen <ba...@gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> I use setenv.bat to point tomcat to my JRE and set some other options.
>> >>> However, when running on an OS that returns Windows_NT from the OS
>> >>> environment variable, Tomcat sets all of the batch files to setlocal.
>> >>> Therefore, when setclasspath.bat is run, it doesn't see any of the
>> >>> variables
>> >>> that were set by setenv.bat Now I know I could set them globally for
>> >>> the
>> >>> machine or user, but I'd rather not do that. I also don't want to
>> >>> edit the
>> >>> tomcat bat files to turn off the setlocal commands.
>> >>>
>> >>> Speaking of which, does anyone know what the reasoning behind the
>> >>> setlocal
>> >>> is in the first place?
>> >>>
>> >>> Any advice would be appreciated. TIA.
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >
>>
>> You should mention what tomcat version you are trying to use.
>>
>> If it is not the latest one, try *.bat files from the latest version.
>>
>> I reckon that I once stumbled into misbehaving bat files, that
>> were also complaining about some wrong goto. I fixed them in couple
>> of minutes by adding some blank lines or removing trailing spaces --
>> I do not remember how exactly, and what were those files, and I do
>> not see any remnants lying around.
>>
>> I suggest you to set "echo on" in all those bat files and
>> capture their output in a file. Maybe there are some oddities
>> there, like too many quotes, backslashes, expanded variables.
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Konstantin Kolinko
>>
I was able to reproduce your issue. Thanks to the log that you attached.
Solution: add
exit /b 0
to the end of either your setenv.bat or to the end of setclasspath.bat
As you already found, the cause is your "set JAVA_HOME=".
It makes errorlevel=1, and the errorlevel value does not change during
all those further lines of execution, including going in and out of
setclasspath.bat.
Confirmation: add
echo %errorlevel%
before and after that set JAVA_HOME= line
Best regards,
Konstantin Kolinko
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Re: Tomcat stops with error after calling setclasspath.bat
Posted by Bai Shen <ba...@gmail.com>.
Nope, doing it all in Windows using notepad.
And I've narrowed down the problem. 2k/2k3 doesn't like the following line.
set JAVA_HOME=
If I don't have a JAVA_HOME variable set, everything works fine. However, I
can't guarantee that the JAVA_HOME variable won't be set on every machine.
So I need some way to unset it if it's not set.
Also, is there a way to differentiate between XP/2k/2k3? They all return
OS=Windows_NT. For the time being, I'd like to put in an if statement on
that set so it only runs in XP.
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Caldarale, Charles R <
Chuck.Caldarale@unisys.com> wrote:
> > From: Bai Shen [mailto:baishen.lists@gmail.com]
> > Subject: Re: Tomcat stops with error after calling setclasspath.bat
> >
> > No effect.
>
> Are you editing your .bat files in UNIX format, by any chance? The Windows
> shell might not like missing carriage returns.
>
> - Chuck
>
>
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RE: Tomcat stops with error after calling setclasspath.bat
Posted by "Caldarale, Charles R" <Ch...@unisys.com>.
> From: Bai Shen [mailto:baishen.lists@gmail.com]
> Subject: Re: Tomcat stops with error after calling setclasspath.bat
>
> No effect.
Are you editing your .bat files in UNIX format, by any chance? The Windows shell might not like missing carriage returns.
- Chuck
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Re: Tomcat stops with error after calling setclasspath.bat
Posted by Bai Shen <ba...@gmail.com>.
No effect.
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Caldarale, Charles R <
Chuck.Caldarale@unisys.com> wrote:
> > From: Bai Shen [mailto:baishen.lists@gmail.com]
> > Subject: Re: Tomcat stops with error after calling setclasspath.bat
> >
> > set JRE_HOME=..\..\jre
>
> Make the above an absolute path, including drive letter.
>
> - Chuck
>
>
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RE: Tomcat stops with error after calling setclasspath.bat
Posted by "Caldarale, Charles R" <Ch...@unisys.com>.
> From: Bai Shen [mailto:baishen.lists@gmail.com]
> Subject: Re: Tomcat stops with error after calling setclasspath.bat
>
> set JRE_HOME=..\..\jre
Make the above an absolute path, including drive letter.
- Chuck
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Re: Tomcat stops with error after calling setclasspath.bat
Posted by Bai Shen <ba...@gmail.com>.
Okay, apparently Tomcat doesn't like my setenv.bat I just copied over a
virgin install of Tomcat, and after setting JRE_HOME, it started right up.
Then I moved my setenv.bat over and it gave me the same problem. I'm not
sure why it doesn't like my setting the JRE_HOME in the setenv.bat
The contents of my setenv.bat are as follows.
set JAVA_HOME=
set JRE_HOME=..\..\jre
set JAVA_OPTS=-Xms64m -Xmx256m
Tomcat doesn't seem to have a problem with the sets, as I did them before
calling startup, and it worked fine. It's just when they're placed in the
setenv.bat file. The only thing I can think of is that the setclasspath.bat
file can't see the JRE_HOME setting, but I can't see where it throws an
error about it.
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Bai Shen <ba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm using 6.0.18, which unless they just put out a new version is the
> latest.
>
> I've already turned the echo on. If you look at my first post, I commented
> what happened in the batch files. I can't see anything that would throw an
> error.
>
> I've enclosed the results of my running catalina start without the echo off
> statements.
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Konstantin Kolinko <
> knst.kolinko@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 2008/9/30 Bai Shen <ba...@gmail.com>:
>> > Okay, if I keep this up I'll be able to fit both feet in my mouth.
>> >
>> > Apparently setclasspath.bat does see the variables set in setenv.bat It
>> was
>> > my troubleshooting method that was faulty.
>> >
>> > Basically, the problem boils down to the fact that right after
>> > setclasspath.bat is call, there's the following line in catalina.bat
>> >
>> > if errorlevel 1 goto end
>> >
>> > That's the last line I see before everthing stops. I had assumed there
>> was a
>> > problem with the setclasspath.bat file, but the last line from that is
>> goto
>> > end, which AFAIK, skips over the exit /b 1
>> >
>> > So for some reason, on Windows 2000 and 2003 Server only, Tomcat won't
>> > start. I get no error at all. I had to remove the echo off statements
>> to
>> > see that it was stopping after setclasspath.bat
>> >
>> > Hopefully this will be the last of me sticking my foot in my mouth. :)
>> >
>> > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Bai Shen <ba...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Okay, I feel silly now. I jus realized that XP returns Windows_NT from
>> the
>> >> OS variable. And my Tomcat install works fine in XP. So it's
>> apparently
>> >> something besides the setlocal. Which leaves me back at square one.
>> :(
>> >>
>> >> Any suggestions?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Bai Shen <ba...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> I use setenv.bat to point tomcat to my JRE and set some other options.
>> >>> However, when running on an OS that returns Windows_NT from the OS
>> >>> environment variable, Tomcat sets all of the batch files to setlocal.
>> >>> Therefore, when setclasspath.bat is run, it doesn't see any of the
>> variables
>> >>> that were set by setenv.bat Now I know I could set them globally for
>> the
>> >>> machine or user, but I'd rather not do that. I also don't want to
>> edit the
>> >>> tomcat bat files to turn off the setlocal commands.
>> >>>
>> >>> Speaking of which, does anyone know what the reasoning behind the
>> setlocal
>> >>> is in the first place?
>> >>>
>> >>> Any advice would be appreciated. TIA.
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >
>>
>> You should mention what tomcat version you are trying to use.
>>
>> If it is not the latest one, try *.bat files from the latest version.
>>
>> I reckon that I once stumbled into misbehaving bat files, that
>> were also complaining about some wrong goto. I fixed them in couple
>> of minutes by adding some blank lines or removing trailing spaces --
>> I do not remember how exactly, and what were those files, and I do
>> not see any remnants lying around.
>>
>> I suggest you to set "echo on" in all those bat files and
>> capture their output in a file. Maybe there are some oddities
>> there, like too many quotes, backslashes, expanded variables.
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Konstantin Kolinko
>>
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>>
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Re: Tomcat stops with error after calling setclasspath.bat
Posted by Bai Shen <ba...@gmail.com>.
I'm using 6.0.18, which unless they just put out a new version is the
latest.
I've already turned the echo on. If you look at my first post, I commented
what happened in the batch files. I can't see anything that would throw an
error.
I've enclosed the results of my running catalina start without the echo off
statements.
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Konstantin Kolinko
<kn...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 2008/9/30 Bai Shen <ba...@gmail.com>:
> > Okay, if I keep this up I'll be able to fit both feet in my mouth.
> >
> > Apparently setclasspath.bat does see the variables set in setenv.bat It
> was
> > my troubleshooting method that was faulty.
> >
> > Basically, the problem boils down to the fact that right after
> > setclasspath.bat is call, there's the following line in catalina.bat
> >
> > if errorlevel 1 goto end
> >
> > That's the last line I see before everthing stops. I had assumed there
> was a
> > problem with the setclasspath.bat file, but the last line from that is
> goto
> > end, which AFAIK, skips over the exit /b 1
> >
> > So for some reason, on Windows 2000 and 2003 Server only, Tomcat won't
> > start. I get no error at all. I had to remove the echo off statements
> to
> > see that it was stopping after setclasspath.bat
> >
> > Hopefully this will be the last of me sticking my foot in my mouth. :)
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Bai Shen <ba...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Okay, I feel silly now. I jus realized that XP returns Windows_NT from
> the
> >> OS variable. And my Tomcat install works fine in XP. So it's
> apparently
> >> something besides the setlocal. Which leaves me back at square one. :(
> >>
> >> Any suggestions?
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Bai Shen <ba...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I use setenv.bat to point tomcat to my JRE and set some other options.
> >>> However, when running on an OS that returns Windows_NT from the OS
> >>> environment variable, Tomcat sets all of the batch files to setlocal.
> >>> Therefore, when setclasspath.bat is run, it doesn't see any of the
> variables
> >>> that were set by setenv.bat Now I know I could set them globally for
> the
> >>> machine or user, but I'd rather not do that. I also don't want to edit
> the
> >>> tomcat bat files to turn off the setlocal commands.
> >>>
> >>> Speaking of which, does anyone know what the reasoning behind the
> setlocal
> >>> is in the first place?
> >>>
> >>> Any advice would be appreciated. TIA.
> >>>
> >>
> >
>
> You should mention what tomcat version you are trying to use.
>
> If it is not the latest one, try *.bat files from the latest version.
>
> I reckon that I once stumbled into misbehaving bat files, that
> were also complaining about some wrong goto. I fixed them in couple
> of minutes by adding some blank lines or removing trailing spaces --
> I do not remember how exactly, and what were those files, and I do
> not see any remnants lying around.
>
> I suggest you to set "echo on" in all those bat files and
> capture their output in a file. Maybe there are some oddities
> there, like too many quotes, backslashes, expanded variables.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Konstantin Kolinko
>
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