[Building Sakai] Tomcat won't start (on Windows)... help!

[Matthew Jones]

By stopping with "Not a valid win32 application" it seems like it's
having a problem with the one of the binaries. I'm not sure which one
though. Have you tried running the java 6 binaries? I know sakai 2.5
won't compile fully with 6 but you shouldn't have any problem running
it. You'll probably need the java opt of
"-Dsun.lang.ClassLoader.allowArraySyntax=true"  though. Java 5 EOL is
coming up in a few months, and I believe sakai 2.6 passed for
compiling and execution in 6.

Hmm, according to these blog you need a 64 bit tomcat binary and
possibly iis connector too. Though it seems like you're going direct.
I was running with the connector on the windows qa install, but I left
it 32 bit as it's an older machine that maxed out at 4 gigs of ram.

http://blog.datajelly.com/company/blog/35-running-tomcat-as-a-64-bit-windows-service.html
http://jspors.blogspot.com/2009/01/setting-up-64-bit-tomcat-6-on-iis7.html

Unfortunately sakai doesn't run under tomcat 6, but maybe there's one
for tomcat 5 out there (or maybe the binaries also work for 5)

-Matthew

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 5:24 PM, will at serensoft.com <will at serensoft.com> wrote:
>
> Just to be clear --
>
> Yes, this is a 64-bit machine;
> yes, we're listening on port 80 instead of 8080 (via server.xml);
> Java has no spaces in its path: C:\Java\jdk1.5.0_18 (from
> jdk-1_5_0_18-windows-amd64.exe installer)
> Tomcat has no spaces in its path: C:\Tomcat55
>
> Also tried the 64-bit binaries from
> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/connectors/trunk/procrun/bin/, no
> luck yet.
>
> :(
>
> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 2:14 PM, will at serensoft.com <will at serensoft.com> wrote:
> > All we get is "error 0x0"...?
> >
> > This is on Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 (SP2)
> > Tried tomcat from apache-tomcat-5.5.27.exe installer and from straight ZIP
> > Java is 1.5.0_18 (
> > Nothing has port 80 open according to netstat -an
> >
> > Executing "tomcat5.exe" from the command line shows only a blank line,
> > then the command prompt pops up again (no text-to-console logged).
> > Executing "startup.bat" shows
> > Using CATALINA_BASE:   C:\Tomcat55
> > Using CATALINA_HOME:   C:\Tomcat55
> > Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: C:\Tomcat55\temp
> > Using JRE_HOME:        C:\Java\jdk1.5.0_18
> >
> > The start>admin>componentServices>event viewer shows only:
> > """
> > The Apache Tomcat service terminated with service-specific error 0 (0x0).
> >
> > For more information, see Help and Support Center at
> > http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
> > """
> >
> > We've tried running it as a service (setting it up via 'service.bat'), too:
> > C:\Tomcat55\logs>type jakarta_service_20090515.log
> > [2009-05-15 15:03:59] [info] Procrun (2.0.4.0) started
> > [2009-05-15 15:03:59] [info] Service sakai name Apache Tomcat sakai
> > [2009-05-15 15:04:00] [info] Service sakai installed
> > [2009-05-15 15:04:00] [info] Procrun finished.
> > [2009-05-15 15:04:00] [info] Procrun (2.0.4.0) started
> > [2009-05-15 15:04:00] [info] Updating service...
> > [2009-05-15 15:04:00] [info] Service sakai updated
> > [2009-05-15 15:04:00] [info] Update service finished.
> > [2009-05-15 15:04:00] [info] Procrun finished.
> > [2009-05-15 15:04:00] [info] Procrun (2.0.4.0) started
> > [2009-05-15 15:04:00] [info] Updating service...
> > [2009-05-15 15:04:00] [info] Service sakai updated
> > [2009-05-15 15:04:00] [info] Update service finished.
> > [2009-05-15 15:04:00] [info] Procrun finished.
> > [2009-05-15 15:05:19] [info] Procrun (2.0.4.0) started
> > [2009-05-15 15:05:19] [info] Running Service...
> > [2009-05-15 15:05:19] [info] Starting service...
> > [2009-05-15 15:05:19] [174  javajni.c] [error] %1 is not a valid Win32
> > application.
> > [2009-05-15 15:05:19] [994  prunsrv.c] [error] Failed creating java
> > C:\Java\jdk1.5.0_18\jre\bin\server\jvm.dll
> > [2009-05-15 15:05:19] [1269 prunsrv.c] [error] ServiceStart returned 1
> > [2009-05-15 15:05:19] [info] Run service finished.
> > [2009-05-15 15:05:19] [info] Procrun finished.
> >
> > Both stderr and stdout logs are empty.
> >
> > We did find a thread online that recommended "copy the file
> > msvcr71.dll from the bin dir of your java installation, to the bin dir
> > of the tomcat installation." Of course, we don't have a msvcr71 (tho
> > we did find a msvcrt.dll which didn't do the trick.)
> >
> > Any pointers would be great!
> >
> > --
> > will trillich
> > "Our only real economic security lies in our power to meet human
> > needs." -- S.Covey, the 8th Habit
> >
>
>
>
> --
> will trillich
> "Our only real economic security lies in our power to meet human
> needs." -- S.Covey, the 8th Habit
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