Assistance reading java error logs

[Ian Petersen]

Wild guess, but it looks like your config file managed to get
corrupted.  You're getting a parsing error from the XML parser.  Part
of your error message says "Parse Fatal Error at line 118 column 10",
so that looks like a good place to start in conf/server.xml.

Ian

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:01 AM, William Muriithi
<william.muriithi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Afternoon,
>
> We had a power outage yesterday and one of the application using
> tomcat as web server failed to come up this morning.  I am in no way a
> java expert and hence tried to use google to figure out what happened.
>
> Unfortunately,  I do not seem to have any luck getting a solution that
> way.  I have a feeling it may require more innate java skills than I
> currently have at my disposal at the moment and hence this post.
> Would there be any helpful pointer to work from from below error log
> that I may be missing?
>
>
>
> Aug 11, 2010 12:11:37 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
> WARNING: Catalina.start using conf/server.xml:
> org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The content of elements must consist of
> well-formed character data or markup.
>        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1231)
>        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:522)
>        at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1644)
>        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:521)
>        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:575)
>        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
>        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
>        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
>        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
>        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:288)
>        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:413)
> SEVERE: Parse Fatal Error at line 118 column 10: The content of
> elements must consist of well-formed character data or markup.
> org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The content of elements must consist of
> well-formed character data or markup.
>        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:195)
>        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:174)
>        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:388)
>        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLScanner.reportFatalError(XMLScanner.java:1414)
>        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.startOfMarkup(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:2606)
>        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:2703)
>        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:648)
>        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:511)
>        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:808)
>        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:737)
>        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:119)
>        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1205)
>        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:522)
>        at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1644)
>        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:521)
>        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:575)
>        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
>        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
>        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
>        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
>        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:288)
>        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:413)
> Aug 11, 2010 12:10:29 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> William
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