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Trying to solve Tomcat error: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/naming/TransactionRef

I got this error below when starting Tomcat.
I google and found that it means I'm missing naming-factory.jar.
But actually I do have it in common/lib.

Can someone please advise?

Thanks in advance for the help.

Nov 18, 2008 1:24:15 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester startElement
SEVERE: Begin event threw error
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/naming/TransactionRef
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.<init>(StandardServer.java:83)
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
        at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:494)
        at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:350)
        at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:303)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.ObjectCreateRule.begin(ObjectCreateRule.java:206)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Rule.begin(Rule.java:153)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.startElement(Digester.java:1276)
        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.startElement(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.startElement(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$ContentDispatcher.scanRootElementHook(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1562)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:490)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:524)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)

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rnicholus

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I think this starts the problem.

There was this symbolic link inside /common/lib:
naming-factory.jar --> /usr/local/ .....

Then I accidentally added naming-factory.jar (the actual file) into that directory.
I remove this file and then the error starts happening eventhough the naming-factory.jar symbolic link is still there.

CEHJ

In Tomcat 6 it's in catalina.jar, which is in the lib directory

rnicholus

ASKER

It's tomcat5.

rnicholus

ASKER

Is it possible that whatever in that directory is now corrupted?

CEHJ

Download the jar from

http://technojeeves.com/joomla/index.php/free/45-jarsearch

and execute it thus

java -jar jarsearch.jar $CATALINA_HOME TransactionRef

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CEHJ

OK - good