[FIXED] How to SHUTDOWN Tomcat in Ubuntu?

Issue

I tried to shutdown tomcat as shown below, but tomcat still seems to be running (http://localhost:8080/)

vandegraff@vandegraff-laptop:~$ /usr/share/tomcat6/bin/shutdown.sh 
Using CATALINA_BASE:   /usr/share/tomcat6
Using CATALINA_HOME:   /usr/share/tomcat6
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/share/tomcat6/temp
Using JRE_HOME:       /usr
1 Nov, 2010 11:41:40 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina stopServer
SEVERE: Catalina.stop: 
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:333)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:195)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:182)
at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:366)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:529)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:478)
at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:375)
at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:189)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.stopServer(Catalina.java:422)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.stopServer(Bootstrap.java:337)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:415)

Why is that?

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Update1 for @hvgotcodes:

Output of ps -ax | grep java

1597 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/jsvc -user tomcat6 -cp /usr/share/java/commons-daemon.jar:/usr/share/tomcat6/bin/bootstrap.jar -outfile SYSLOG -errfile SYSLOG -pidfile /var/run/tomcat6.pid -Djava.awt.headless=true -Xmx128M -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/usr/share/tomcat6/endorsed -Dcatalina.base=/var/lib/tomcat6 -Dcatalina.home=/usr/share/tomcat6 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/tmp/tomcat6-temp -Djava.security.manager -Djava.security.policy=/var/lib/tomcat6/work/catalina.policy -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/var/lib/tomcat6/conf/logging.properties org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap

1598 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/jsvc -user tomcat6 -cp /usr/share/java/commons-daemon.jar:/usr/share/tomcat6/bin/bootstrap.jar -outfile SYSLOG -errfile SYSLOG -pidfile /var/run/tomcat6.pid -Djava.awt.headless=true -Xmx128M -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/usr/share/tomcat6/endorsed -Dcatalina.base=/var/lib/tomcat6 -Dcatalina.home=/usr/share/tomcat6 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/tmp/tomcat6-temp -Djava.security.manager -Djava.security.policy=/var/lib/tomcat6/work/catalina.policy -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/var/lib/tomcat6/conf/logging.properties org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap

1599 ? Sl 0:20 /usr/bin/jsvc -user tomcat6 -cp /usr/share/java/commons-daemon.jar:/usr/share/tomcat6/bin/bootstrap.jar -outfile SYSLOG -errfile SYSLOG -pidfile /var/run/tomcat6.pid -Djava.awt.headless=true -Xmx128M -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/usr/share/tomcat6/endorsed -Dcatalina.base=/var/lib/tomcat6 -Dcatalina.home=/usr/share/tomcat6 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/tmp/tomcat6-temp -Djava.security.manager -Djava.security.policy=/var/lib/tomcat6/work/catalina.policy -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/var/lib/tomcat6/conf/logging.properties org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap

Should all these 3 processes - 1597, 1598, 1599 - be killed?

Solution

Van, in your case where tomcat won't shutdown normally, i would use

ps ax | grep java

to find the java process number. If that command returns something, then run

sudo kill -9 pid

where pid is the process number. The -9 option means 'just kill it', and normally you don't need this sort of thing, but since in your situation the process won't stop normally, you need it.

The output of the first command should look like

38678 s002  U      0:02.62 /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/CurrentJDK/Home/bin/java -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.26/conf/logging.properties -Xms2048m -Xmx2048m -XX:PermSize=256m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=8086 -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false -Djava.rmi.server.hostname=xxxx -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.26/endorsed -classpath /usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.26/bin/bootstrap.jar -Dcatalina.base=/usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.26 -Dcatalina.home=/usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.26 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.26/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start

38678 is the process number. Be aware that there might be other java processes running that you might not want to kill. Also, this output is from a mac, so on ubuntu will look slightly different.

Answered By - hvgotcodes

Answer Checked By - Marie Seifert (PHPFixing Admin)