Tomcat startup logs - SEVERE: Error filterStart how to get a stack trace?

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benstpierre picture benstpierre · Jun 10, 2010 · Viewed 126.1k times · Source

When I start Tomcat I get the following error:

Jun 10, 2010 5:17:25 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Error filterStart
Jun 10, 2010 5:17:25 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Context [/mywebapplication] startup failed due to previous errors

It seems odd that the logs for Tomcat would not include a stack trace. Does somebody have a suggestion for how to increase the logging in Tomcat to get stack traces for errors like this?

Answer

matt b picture matt b · Jun 10, 2010

Check the localhost_yyyy_mm_dd.log OR localhost.yyyy-mm-dd.log logs that Tomcat creates, these typically store that type of info. I wouldn't expect the full stacktrace to be dumped to standard out.

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