Tomcat won t stop or restart

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I tried stopping tomcat  It failed with this message     Tomcat did not stop in time  PID file was not removed    I then tried again and got this    PID file   opt tomcat work catalina pid  found but no matching process was found  Stop aborted    I then tried starting tomcat in debug mode and got this    PID file   opt tomcat work catalina pid  found  Is Tomcat still running  Start aborted    I them deleted  opt tomcat work catalina pid and tried restarting and got this     CATALINA PID was set   opt tomcat work catalina pid  but the specified file does not exist  Is Tomcat running  Stop aborted    Anyone know how to get tomcat restarted

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Recent I have met several times of stop abnormal. Although shutdown.sh provides some information, The situations are:

result of the command ps -ef| grep java is Null.
result of the command ps -ef| grep java is not null.

My opinion is just kill the process of Catalina and remove the pid file (In your situation is /opt/tomcat/work/catalina.pid.)

The result seems not so seriously to influence others.

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The catalina pid is missing in your case   This file is located under  your jira dir  work catalina pid and it contains the pid of the current instance of jira   so  ps aux   grep jira    find the correct entry  Copy the PID of the output and create a file that only contains this PID  - Make sure it can be read and written by the user which runs jira  Try to shutdown jira again

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You can always try to kill the process in case you see this kind of issues  You can get the process ID either from PS or from pid file and kill the process

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Make sure Tomcat is not currently running and the PID file is removed  Them you should start Tomcat successfully   If you start fresh then    Create setenv sh file in  lt CATALINA HOME gt  bin  In it I set CATALINA PID  tmp tomcat pid  or other directory of your choice  so you have more control over the Tomcat process    Then to start Tomcat find catalina sh in  lt CATALINA HOME gt  bin and execute     catalina sh start   and to stop it run     catalina sh stop 10 -force   From catalina sh script s doc     catalina sh  Usage  catalina sh   commands       commands   start             Start Catalina in a separate window stop              Stop Catalina  waiting up to 5 seconds for the process to end stop n            Stop Catalina  waiting up to n seconds for the process to end stop -force       Stop Catalina  wait up to 5 seconds and then use kill -KILL if still running stop n -force     Stop Catalina  wait up to n seconds and then use kill -KILL if still running   Note  If you want to use -force flag then setting CATALINA PID is mandatory

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It seems Tomcat was actually stopped  I started it and it started fine  Thanks all

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I faced the same problem as mentioned below   PID file found but no matching process was found  Stop aborted   Solution is to find the free space of the linux machine by using the following command  df -h  The above command shows my home directory was 100  used  Then identified which files to be removed by using the following command  du -h    After removing  it was able to perform IO operation on the linux machine and the tomcat was able to start

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FIRST --  rm catalina engine  THEN --   startup sh  NEXT TIME you restart --    shutdown sh -force

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In my case  the tomcat pid is under  opt tomcat temp   Tried to delete it manually  Still didn t work  After check setnev sh in  opt tomcat bin   notice there is a line of code to define JAVA HOME   export JAVA HOME  usr lib jvm java-1 8 0-openjdk-1 8 0 212 b04-0 el7 6 x86 64 jre   Commented out this line  restart Tomcat  It works  Since I did a yum update and a new minor version of Java update coming from 1 8 0 212 to 1 8 0 222  Lessons learned  Hard-code should be avoided

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sometimes if the same pid is running after reboot tomcat will not start  my pid file was at apache-tomcat temp tomcat pid   change file apache-tomcat bin catalina sh about line 386   from  ps -p  PID  gt  dev null 2 gt  amp 1   to  ps -fp  PID  grep catalina  gt  dev null 2 gt  amp 1    excerpt from catalina sh file   if     -z   CATALINA PID     then     if   -f   CATALINA PID     then       if   -s   CATALINA PID     then         echo  Existing PID file found during start           if   -r   CATALINA PID     then           PID  cat   CATALINA PID             ps -fp  PID  grep catalina  gt  dev null 2 gt  amp 1   this line           if      -eq 0     then             echo  Tomcat appears to still be running with PID  PID  Start aborted               echo  If the following process is not a Tomcat process  remove the PID file and try again               ps -f -p  PID             exit 1           else             echo  Removing clearing stale PID file               rm -f   CATALINA PID   gt  dev null 2 gt  amp 1             if         0    then               if   -w   CATALINA PID     then                 cat  dev null  gt    CATALINA PID                else                 echo  Unable to remove or clear stale PID file  Start aborted                   exit 1               fi             fi           fi         else           echo  Unable to read PID file  Start aborted

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sudo systemctl stop tomcat  did it for me

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Have you try   sudo   catalina sh stop  It worked in my case

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Follow this     Open    etc systemd system tomcat service  Can you see JAVA HOME     modify it like below Environment  quot JAVA HOME  usr lib jvm java-1 11 0-openjdk-amd64 quot   At 1 11 0 - insert your own Jdk version  systemctl daemon-reload  sudo systemctl start tomcat    Now  in eclipse - gt  Add Server - gt        Got struck at tomcat installation directory     Extract the tomcat tar file you already downloaded  Now go back to eclipse - gt  add server - gt  Browse - gt  Point to extracted file  done in step 1 above      Comment if you get struck in somewhere else too

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You can go to the location   CATALINA HOME  logs  open catalina pid  Here we will get the pid  then terminate the process  kill -9 pid

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I had this error message having started up a second Tomcat server on a Linux server    CATALINA PID was set but the specified file does not exist  Is Tomcat running  Stop aborted    When starting up the 2nd Tomcat I had set CATALINA PID as asked but my mistake was to set it to a directory  I assumed Tomcat would write a default file name in there with the pid    The fix was simply to change my CATALINA PID to add a file name to the end of it  I chose catalina pid from the above examples   Next I went to the directory and did a simple   touch catalina pid   creating an empty file of the correct name  Then when I did my shutdown sh I got the message back saying   PID file is empty and has been ignored  Tomcat stopped    I didn t have the option to kill Tomcat as the JVM was in use so I was glad I found this

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