Stopping service Tomcat-Standalone ...

[Bruno Beloff]

Hi.

I've got a hard-to-trace problem in shutting down Tomcat 4.1.27 (I'm
starting up with startup.sh and shutting down with shutdown.sh, running on
Mac OS X.)

Frequently, Tomcat shuts down fine. Other times, it gives the following
response:

Stopping service Tomcat-Standalone
Nov 20, 2003 6:12:46 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint
closeServerSocket
SEVERE: Caught exception trying to unlock accept.
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:305)
at
java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:171)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:158)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:426)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:376)
at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:291)
at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:119)
at
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.closeServerSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint
.java:326)
at
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.acceptSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java
:397)
at
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:529)
at
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.jav
a:619)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:554)
Nov 20, 2003 6:12:46 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint
closeServerSocket
SEVERE: Caught exception trying to close socket.
java.lang.NullPointerException
at
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.closeServerSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint
.java:338)
at
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.acceptSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java
:397)
at
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:529)
at
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.jav
a:619)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:554)
Nov 20, 2003 6:12:46 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint
acceptSocket
WARNING: Reinitializing ServerSocket

When this happens, a java process is left running, and this has to be killed
by hand before Tomcat can be restarted.

I haven't been able to correlate this situation with anything done to Tomcat
while it's running. Does anyone have any idea where I should be looking for
the solution?

Cheers,

Bruno.