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Tomcat SEVERE: Error listenerStart

I am trying to start tomcat instance which used to work proprely but now I am getting SEVERE: Error listenerStart. Nothing has been changed on the server but still I am getting this error. What could be the reason.

Here is the error log details.

catalina.out
Mar 31, 2009 5:04:35 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol init
INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
Mar 31, 2009 5:04:35 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 510 ms
Mar 31, 2009 5:04:35 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start
INFO: Starting service Catalina
Mar 31, 2009 5:04:35 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/5.5.16
Mar 31, 2009 5:04:35 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost start
INFO: XML validation disabled
Mar 31, 2009 5:04:36 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDescriptor
WARNING: A docBase /appl/tomcat0/webapps/portal inside the host appBase has been specified, and will be ignored
Mar 31, 2009 5:04:37 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Error listenerStart
Mar 31, 2009 5:04:37 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Context [/portal] startup failed due to previous errors
Mar 31, 2009 5:05:07 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR


localhost log file
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Mar 31, 2009 5:01:50 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: ContextListener: contextDestroyed()
Mar 31, 2009 5:01:50 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext filterStop
FINE: Stopping filters
Mar 31, 2009 5:01:50 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext filterStop
FINE:  Stopping filter 'BalancerFilter'
Mar 31, 2009 5:01:50 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext filterStop
FINE: Stopping filters
Mar 31, 2009 5:01:50 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext filterStop
FINE: Stopping filters
Mar 31, 2009 5:04:37 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext listenerStart
FINE:  Configuring event listener class 'com.vignette.portal.website.internal.AppContextListener'
Mar 31, 2009 5:04:37 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext listenerStart
FINE:  Configuring event listener class 'com.vignette.webservices.toolkit.config.WebServiceToolkitConfiguration'
Mar 31, 2009 5:04:37 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext listenerStart
FINE: Sending application start events
Mar 31, 2009 5:04:37 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext listenerStart
SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class com.vignette.portal.website.internal.AppContextListener
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/vignette/portal/config/PortalSystem
        at com.vignette.portal.config.PortalConfigUtils.<clinit>(PortalConfigUtils.java:38)
        at com.epicentric.system.SystemManager.loadProperties(SystemManager.java:132)
        at com.epicentric.system.SystemManager.startSystemInitialization(SystemManager.java:91)
        at com.epicentric.system.SystemManager.startSystemInitialization(SystemManager.java:79)
        at com.vignette.portal.website.internal.AppContextListener.startSystem(AppContextListener.java:34)
        at com.vignette.portal.website.internal.AppContextListener.contextInitialized(AppContextListener.java:38)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3729)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4183)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:759)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:739)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:524)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:608)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.java:535)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:470)
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It cannot find the vignette classes, make sure they are available to the webapp

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They are available. Setup has been same . nothing has been changed.
where are the classes?
(something must have changed)

Those are in webapps/portal/WEB-INF/classes
Is the PortalSystem class there?

Nope that class is not there but its not there in any other environment as well.

Other environemnt where same setup is working fine this is what I get in logs.



Mar 31, 2009 3:02:04 AM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol init
INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
Mar 31, 2009 3:02:04 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 613 ms
Mar 31, 2009 3:02:04 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start
INFO: Starting service Catalina
Mar 31, 2009 3:02:04 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/5.5.16
Mar 31, 2009 3:02:04 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost start
INFO: XML validation disabled
Mar 31, 2009 3:02:05 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDescriptor
WARNING: A docBase /appl/tomcat0/webapps/portal inside the host appBase has been specified, and will be ignored
Tue Mar 31 03:02:06 EDT 2009: Loading default properties from: /appl/vap/Portal/system/portalserver.properties
Tue Mar 31 03:02:06 EDT 2009: Loading custom properties from: /appl/vap/Portal/config/properties.txt
Tue Mar 31 03:02:06 EDT 2009: [RandomConfiguration] Creating random seed file: /appl/vap/Portal/system/random.dat
PortalConfigUtils is trying to load it. check there isn't another version of the classes in tomcats lib directories
> FINE:  Configuring event listener class 'com.vignette.portal.website.internal.AppContextListener'

and check your webapp config to why its loading that listener and the other working instances are not

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