Cannot deploy Grails app on Tomcat 6

Question

I cannot deploy my Grails 2.2.4 application on my Tomcat 6. I've tried fresh installation of tomcat and even the old version of my application (which was running before).

This exception is thrown after one min. after the tomcat starts:

INFO: Illegal access: this web application instance has been stopped already.  Could not load org.apache.commons.pool.impl.CursorableLinkedList$Cursor.  The eventual following stack trace is caused by an error thrown for debugging purposes as well as to attempt to terminate the thread which caused the illegal access, and has no functional impact.
java.lang.IllegalStateException
    at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1600)
    at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1559)
    at org.apache.commons.pool.impl.CursorableLinkedList.cursor(CursorableLinkedList.java:305)
    at org.apache.commons.pool.impl.GenericObjectPool.evict(GenericObjectPool.java:1536)
    at org.apache.commons.pool.impl.GenericObjectPool$Evictor.run(GenericObjectPool.java:1749)
    at java.util.TimerThread.mainLoop(Timer.java:512)
    at java.util.TimerThread.run(Timer.java:462)
Exception in thread "Timer-0" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/pool/impl/CursorableLinkedList$Cursor
    at org.apache.commons.pool.impl.CursorableLinkedList.cursor(CursorableLinkedList.java:305)
    at org.apache.commons.pool.impl.GenericObjectPool.evict(GenericObjectPool.java:1536)
    at org.apache.commons.pool.impl.GenericObjectPool$Evictor.run(GenericObjectPool.java:1749)
    at java.util.TimerThread.mainLoop(Timer.java:512)
    at java.util.TimerThread.run(Timer.java:462)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.commons.pool.impl.CursorableLinkedList$Cursor
    at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1714)
    at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1559)
    ... 5 more
Oct 24, 2013 8:34:55 PM org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader loadClass
INFO: Illegal access: this web application instance has been stopped already.  Could not load net.sf.ehcache.store.compound.CompoundStore$KeySet.  The eventual following stack trace is caused by an error thrown for debugging purposes as well as to attempt to terminate the thread which caused the illegal access, and has no functional impact.
java.lang.IllegalStateException
    at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1600)
    at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1559)
    at net.sf.ehcache.store.compound.CompoundStore.keySet(CompoundStore.java:216)
    at net.sf.ehcache.store.compound.factories.DiskStorageFactory$DiskExpiryTask.run(DiskStorageFactory.java:670)
    at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:441)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRunAndReset(FutureTask.java:317)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.runAndReset(FutureTask.java:150)
    at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$101(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:98)
    at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.runPeriodic(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:180)
    at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:204)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)

I really have no clue where to start to fix it. :-/

Answer 1

You should add commons-pool-1.4.jar to you application with runtime scope.
Add

grails.project.dependency.resolution = {
   // ...  
   dependencies {
        // ...
        runtime 'commons-pool:commons-pool:1.4'
   }
   // ...
}  

to project file grails-app/conf/BuildConfig.groovy

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