[DAEMON-110] tomcat service can't be launched on some systems with jre 1.6

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.0.2

Environment

Windows environments where no instance of msvcr71.dll is on the system path.

• Assignee: Mladen Turk
• Reporter: Dan Armbrust
• Created: 11/Jul/08 13:23
• Updated: 26/Feb/10 16:56
• Resolved: 11/Feb/10 17:22

Description

On some windows systems, the tomcat service launcher will not start - instead, reporting the following errors:

[2008-04-07 10:48:33] [info] Procrun (2.0.3.0) started
[2008-04-07 10:48:33] [info] Running Service...
[2008-04-07 10:48:33] [info] Starting service...
[2008-04-07 10:48:33] [174 javajni.c] [error] The specified module could not
be found.
[2008-04-07 10:48:33] [986 prunsrv.c] [error] Failed creating java C:\Program
Files\Java\jre1.6.0_05\bin\client\jvm.dll
[2008-04-07 10:48:33] [1260 prunsrv.c] [error] ServiceStart returned 1
[2008-04-07 10:48:33] [info] Run service finished.
[2008-04-07 10:48:33] [info] Procrun finished.

This is due to a Sun bug which Sun refuses to fix:

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6509291

So, the problem has to be worked around somewhere else. The tomcat developers feel that the issue should be fixed here, in commons-daemon.

There is a nice summary of what needs to be done here:
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41538#c26

And plenty more information in that thread on tomcat.