tomcat 5 console not closing after executing shutdown.bat

[Edward Murphy <ed...@yahoo.com>]

Hi,
   
  tomcat versionfiltered=apache-tomcat-5.5.16 
jdk version = java version 1.5.0_07
   
  I am having issues shutting down tomcat 5 
   
  When I execute shutdown.bat the server stops and I can no longer deploy applications but the tomcat console stays open and tha java.exe process stays alive in the task manager. 
   
  I also get an error message "INFO: Failed shutdown of Apache Portable Runtime" in my console. However I feel this is unrelated to why the console is not disappearing as I googled and commented out a couple of things in my server.xml and the error mesage went away but unfortunatley the console window stays open and java.exe remains alive in the task manager. 
  
This is what I commneted out in server.xml to get rid of the  Failed shutdown of Apache Portable Runtime error. 
  
<!-- disabled the listener to avoid the warning during shutdown. 
<Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener"/> 
--> 

<!-- Define an AJP 1.3 Connector on port 8009 
<Connector port="8009" 
enableLookups="false" redirectPort="8443" protocol="AJP/1.3" /> 
--> 

   
  Does anyonw have any idea why the tomcat server shuts down but the console stays open?
   
  Help Appreciated
   
  Ed.

 		
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