[TriLUG] very strange tomcat error

[Greg Brown]

I started to get an odd tomcat error last night (on a test machine) so
I backed off tomcat and java (using rpm -e for all packages).  I then
reinstalled java then tomcat and tomcat-webapps.  A "service tomcat4
start" doesn't complain, but the service does not listen on it's port.
 A service tomcat4 stop produces the following written to standard
error:

Stopping tomcat4: Using CATALINA_BASE:   /var/tomcat4
Using CATALINA_HOME:   /var/tomcat4
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /var/tomcat4/temp
Using JAVA_HOME:       /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_08
java.util.zip.ZipException: No such file or directory
        at java.util.zip.ZipFile.open(Native Method)
        at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:112)
        at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(JarFile.java:127)
        at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(JarFile.java:65)
        at org.apache.catalina.loader.StandardClassLoader.addRepositoryInternal(
StandardClassLoader.java:1082)
        at org.apache.catalina.loader.StandardClassLoader.<init>(StandardClassLo
ader.java:221)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.ClassLoaderFactory.createClassLoader(Clas
sLoaderFactory.java:204)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:147)
Bootstrap: Class loader creation threw exception
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: addRepositoryInternal: java.util.zip.ZipExce
ption: No such file or directory
        at org.apache.catalina.loader.StandardClassLoader.addRepositoryInternal(
StandardClassLoader.java:1110)
        at org.apache.catalina.loader.StandardClassLoader.<init>(StandardClassLo
ader.java:221)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.ClassLoaderFactory.createClassLoader(Clas
sLoaderFactory.java:204)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:147)
Warning: bad syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See /usr/share/doc/procps-3.2.3/FAQ
Warning: bad syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See /usr/share/doc/procps-3.2.3/FAQ
Warning: bad syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See /usr/share/doc/procps-3.2.3/FAQ
Warning: bad syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See /usr/share/doc/procps-3.2.3/FAQ
Warning: bad syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See /usr/share/doc/procps-3.2.3/FAQ
Warning: bad syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See /usr/share/doc/procps-3.2.3/FAQ
Warning: bad syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See /usr/share/doc/procps-3.2.3/FAQ
Warning: bad syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See /usr/share/doc/procps-3.2.3/FAQ


Any ideas?