This is my first time asking a question on Stack Overflow. I recently configured an Ubuntu 16.04 virtual private server to host a web application. I run ngnix on a Tomcat server that reads and writes to a MySQL database. The application runs fine except for the fact that Tomcat restarts itself once in a while which results in a 500 error that stems from a "broken-pipe" when anyone tries to login (i.e. make a connection to the database).
I will post an image of the 500 next time it happens. I went into my vps and looked at my Tomcat restart message. This is what I see: Tomcat status message.
I also did a little diving into the Tomcat logs and this is a log file that corresponds with that restart time: Tomcat log file
I did some research to try and solve this myself, but with no success. I believe that the exit=143 is the process being terminated by another program or the system itself. I also have done some moving of the mysql-connector-java.jar. I read that it should be located in the Tomcat/lib directory and not in the WEB-INF of the web application. Perhaps I need to configure other settings.
Any help or any direction would be much appreciated. I've fought this issue for a week with having learned much, but accomplished little.
Thanks
Look at the timeline. It starts at 19:49:23.766 in the Tomcat log with this message:
A valid shutdown command was received via the shutdown port. Stopping the Server instance.
Exit code 143 is a result of that shutdown and doesn't indicate anything.
The question you need answered is: Who send that shutdown command, and why?
On a side note: The earlier messages indicates that Tomcat lost connection to the database, and that you didn't configure a validation query. You should always configure that, since database connections in the connection pool will go stale, and that needs to be detected.
Theory: Do you have some monitoring service running that tests your application being up? Does that monitoring detect a timed-out database connection, classify that as a hung webapp and auto-restart Tomcat?
While I don't think I am able to see to the core of the problem you have with your overall setup given the small excerpt of your log files, one thing strikes the eye. In the Tomcat log, there is the line
A valid shutdown command was received via the shutdown port. Stopping the server instance.
This explains why the server was restarted. Someone (some external process, a malicious attacker, script, or whatever. Could be anything depending on the setup of your server) sent a shutdown command to Tomcat's shutdown port (8005 by default) which made the Tomcat shut down.
Refer to OWASP's recommendations for securing a Tomcat server instance for fixing this possible security whole.
Regarding the ostensible Hibernate problems you have, I don't get enough information from your logs to make a useful statement. But you can leave the MySQL jar in Tomcat/lib, since this is not the root cause of your problem.
We have a several application deployed in Jboss server. From last few month its observed that jboss servers gets killed without logging any error or exception neither in any application log nor in Jboss server log. The crash is not periodic and happens randomly. The crash is very silent (similar to kill -9 )and its become extremely difficult to debug the root cause.From our analysis one thing sure its not out of memory issue.We analysed the syslog as well, nothing suspicious found. Is possible to force VM to generate error log before the process crash due to any reason.
Any help would be appreciated.
The JVM logs fatal errors to hs_err_<pid>.log files
You can change the location of the fatal log file using java -XX:ErrorFile=/var/log/java/java_error%p.log
I experienced similar problem using JBoss EAP 6 in Linux enviroment, when system memory is almost gone the S.O kill some process, normally the file hs_err_pidxxx.log with crash report are generated inside bin directory of JBoss. Other case that process is killed is when you are using JBoss with DC mode, when instance stay long time without communication with DC, the process is finalized, I dont know why.
I try to deploy my Java project Apache Tomcat server but sometimes it gets down and returns me this page
Tomcat is installed on the Digitalocean's Ubuntu 14.04 and droplet's properties are 512Mb/1CPU, 20GB SSD Disk, 1000 GB transfer. I took the lowest option for test purposes. The site is visited by nobody except me and from the graphs I observe that the server is not overloaded at all. Most of the time everything works fine until suddenly the server returns 503. After I restart it keeps working fine again till the next 503 error in several days. I'd like to know what could cause this error: my mistake on configuring the server or maybe problems on server side?
That mean tomcat is not running. You can use the alias command to up the tomcat service or just go in the current directory and start the service.
Example: # tomcatup
/opt/tomcat8/bin/startup.sh
I just installed two tomcat in my machine and deployed same application on both. Both application and tomcats are running great. Now i tried adding both the services to services.msc. I done this successfully. Now i can start and stop any service from services.msc. But on accessing both application simultaneously, i found, i am able to access only one application and when i am trying to access other application, the corresponding service goes stop with a permgen space error in the logs.
I tried increasing space of ms and mx and also i found that "Path to executable" under tomcat6w.exe is same.
Now my concern is how to remove that permgen space error. In my points it looks that both services are using one tomcat.
if i am starting tomcats through command prompt or through batch file both are working great but problem causes only on the case when i am accessing both services from services.msc.
Can you guys please help me in overcoming this problem.
Set XX:MaxPermSize. It will increase the PermSize of your JVM. For example -XX:MaxPermSize=64m. Reference
I'm using Apache and Tomcat on a Windows server and since this morning, Tomcat stops working without any logs. It doesn't hang, it just shut down.
There's no log in Tomcat, the CPU/Memory are fines, there are no System.Exit in my code.
Anybody ever had this problem?
It happens at random, after 5-10 minutes. The application responds normally and sometime, boom.. stops working.
UPDATE : Still no clue. The Admin team will install the webapp on another box...
My script to start tomcat had last line tail -f catalina.out.
Sometime I did not kill this script, the shell then timed out and killed the script with all child processes, including tomcat.
This sounds like the JVM is crashing. Have you looked for a JVM crash log? It typically has a name like hs_err_pid*.log and is created in the JVM's working directory.
If you find a file like this and upload it, then we can probably help more.
Some questions:
Have you recently changed the version of Java you are using?
What is the exact version of Tomcat you are using?
Are you using Tomcat Native (the Apache Portable Runtime)?
Faced this issue recently.
Scenario : Tomcat started successfully but automatically gets shut down after 1 hour and sometimes this happened after 1 day and nothing is there in tomcat logs.
Issue : Actual issue was high memory usage and no free SWAP memory.
How I found the solution
If tomcat don't show any logs, then there must be something in system logs so, I checked /var/log/messages but since permission denied for me I tried /var/log/dmesg and got this
"Out of memory: Kill process 14606 (java) score 106 or sacrifice child".
In the output I noticed Swap Memory free 0 K. Ran top command to confirm the same. So, somehow there was a high memory usage which caused the OS to kill my tomcat process.
After spending hours finally got the reason.
ps -ef | grep tomcat showed that there were several tomcat processes running for the same application. It seems that, earlier tomcat shutdowns might not have taken successfully and the processes were not killed even after the shutdown due to some reason, which was causing the high memory usage.
So, killed all running tomcat processes using kill. SWAP memory got freed.
Started tomcat again, worked fine. :)
Recently I had this problem, If somebody faces the same issue in future I hope this will help.
Scenario: Tomcat shuts down without any logs or errors
Root Cause for my problem: synchronized method accessed from a task using TimerTask
I had a singleton class with a synchronized method accessed from various threads based on timer or user action
some times this method will take up to few minutes to complete. When TimerTask is waiting on this method for sometime (I guess timer is timed out /thread is killed or something is happening in the background) and the moment the lock on the method is released the tomcat is getting killed.
So I removed synchronized keyword and removed singleton and made some code changes for thread safety. Then the problem is gone.
How I found out: I had a log statement in the first line of synchronized method and everytime the tomcat shutdowns i found this message in the last few lines.
Regards,
Phanindra Kasturi
things to look for in debugging an issue like this:
Look at the logs directory ($TOMCAT_ROOT/logs) to make sure none of the log files have any stack traces
Look at the tomcat startup script to make check the location of the log files to see if the logs are not being written to another directory.
Another reason could be some other user/process could be issuing a kill -9 that could kill tomcat without giving it any chance to log errors.
another possibility is that some process was started this morning on the box that is binding to a port that your server requires.
Are your servlets or one of it's dependencies allowed to call System.exit()? (Not sure how locked down Tomcat VMs are in that sense)
I've had developers thinking it's ok to use exit(666); on detecting a non-invertable matrix (which isn't good, but sure as heck not fatal). Arrgh. Perhaps you have some similar culprit in your system?
I noticed CATALINA_OPTS in my path and that was set for a lower JVM size. Hence, the crash and no log trace of tomcat was found. The server automatically shutdown in less than 2 hrs.
check, CATALINA_OPTS or JAVA_OPTS -- these might have jvm settings. either increase them or comment them out and increase the swap memory.
“The Service on local computer started and then stopped ,Some services stop automatically if there are not in use by other services or programs.”
I gone through the problem i have tried so many ways to get out of the problem finally i got the solution as follows.
1) Click Run Command from start button.
2) Enter Services.msc then click OK,you will get all the services in your computer.
3) Select your service and right click on the service and select Properties
4) Goto Logon Properties and select Local System Account then click OK.
This will work.
Sometime it happens if some other program is running on the same port. For example Skype. Shut down that program before you start Tomcat.
try to clean your elipse projects because you could have tried to add another server which used port 8080 then when you try to execute the tomcat server externally that defaulty uses port 8080 the tomcat server automatically shutdowns after cleaning the project copy the new war file and paste it in bin it works fine
conclusion: when the server tries to use the port which has already been acquired you will see such type of issues.