Tomcat6 throws java.io.EOFException

Question

I have a Symfony application running on a vagrant VM with CentOS 6 and hosted on Apache Tomcat 6. When I try to access the application, I get a Secure Connection Failed error. The tomcat logs show this:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Error: java.io.EOFException
    at sun.util.calendar.ZoneInfoFile$1.run(ZoneInfoFile.java:261)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at sun.util.calendar.ZoneInfoFile.<clinit>(ZoneInfoFile.java:251)
    (....more lines)
Caused by: java.io.EOFException
    at java.io.DataInputStream.readByte(DataInputStream.java:267)
    at sun.util.calendar.ZoneInfoFile.load(ZoneInfoFile.java:294)
    at sun.util.calendar.ZoneInfoFile.access$000(ZoneInfoFile.java:61)
    at sun.util.calendar.ZoneInfoFile$1.run(ZoneInfoFile.java:258)
    ... 37 more

This started happening seemingly out of nowhere, with no apparent triggers. Following various posts on SO, I deleted the following directories:

${CATALINA_HOME}/work/Catalina/localhost/cas
${CATALINA_HOME}/work/Catalina
${CATALINA_HOME}/temp
${CATALINA_HOME}/webapps/cas
/var/cache/tomcat6/temp
/var/cache/tomcat6/work

where 'cas' is the name of the application. I restarted the tomcat6 service using sudo service tomcat6 restart and the command seems to run successfully. But when I run 'sudo service tomcat6 status', I get PID file exists, but process is not running [FAILED]

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

I figured it out by running yum update . It showed that there are duplicated packages. Following this post, I deleted the duplicated packages and ran yum distro-sync . Then, tomcat6 was able to start successfully.