User defined log file cannot be found or is not usable

[Kunal Bhatia]

Dear All,

I'am getting the following error on starting server Tomcat 5.5

[error]
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:295)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:433)
Caused by: org.apache.commons.logging.LogConfigurationException: User-specified log class 'org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Log4JLogger' cannot be found or is not useable.
at org.apache.commons.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.discoverLogImplementation(LogFactoryImpl.java:874)
at org.apache.commons.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.newInstance(LogFactoryImpl.java:604)
at org.apache.commons.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.getInstance(LogFactoryImpl.java:336)
at org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory.getLog(LogFactory.java:704)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.getLogger(ContainerBase.java:381)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4119)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1014)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:736)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1014)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:448)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:700)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:552)
... 6 more

What is suppose from this error about some classpath error of log4j.jar...but not able to find the error....Can you help in this??

[Tim Holloway]

Your exception is coming from Apache commons-logging, which is a logging consolidator used to manage software from multiple sources which may be using different logging packages. The message indicates it can't find the adapter for log4j logging.

I think there's a copy of commons-logging in TOMCAT_HOME/lib, so potentially you could be encountering a classpath conflict, but I'd check the apache commons logging docs to make sure you've got it set up properly.