Metacat

    <div class="toc2"><a href="#Issue1">Issue 1</a></div> 

    <div class="toc2"><a href="#Issue2">Issue 2</a></div>

    <div class="toc2"><a href="#Jdk14Logger">Metacat doesn't start and Jdk14Logger exception</a></div> 

	<a name="Jdk14Logger"></a><div class="header2">Metacat doesn't start and Jdk14Logger exception</div>

	<p>The symptoms are that the metacat service will not show up at all, even though Tomcat 

      is serving, and the following error shows up in the tomcat log (catalina.log):</p>

      <div class="code">org.apache.commons.logging.LogConfigurationException: User-specified log

      class 'org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Jdk14Logger' cannot be found or is

      not useable </div>

      <p>This message typically occurs in the tomcat log (catalina.log) 

      when Tomcat has been installed on an Ubuntu/Debian system using apt-get install.  

      And the application is started using:

        <div class="code">/etc/init.d/tomcat5.5 start</div>  

      <p>The problem is that the standard startup scripts reference the 

      common java service, jsvc.  Metacat will not run under jsvc.  The solutions are:

      <ul>

      <li>Download the <a href="http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/software/download.html">Metacat binary install package</a>

       and replace your /etc/init.d/tomcat5.5 startup script with the one provided in the

       package.</li>

      <li>Run Tomcat from the Tomcat binary directory: <tomcat_home>/bin/startup.sh and 

      <tomcat_home>/bin/shutdown.sh</li>

      </ul>

      </p>