Remove conf/catalina.properties and get: SEVERE: Class loader creation threw exception java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/tomcat/util/ExceptionUtils at org.apache.catalina.startup.CatalinaProperties.loadProperties(CatalinaProperties.java:112) at org.apache.catalina.startup.CatalinaProperties.<clinit>(CatalinaProperties.java:52) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.createClassLoader(Bootstrap.java:110) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.initClassLoaders(Bootstrap.java:93) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:207) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:392) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.tomcat.util.ExceptionUtils at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:303) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:248) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:316) org.apache.tomcat.util.ExceptionUtils is not available for the class loader during this early stage. Observed in r991965, added TODO marks in CatalinaProperties.java.
Fixed in trunk and will be included in 7.0.3 onwards.