On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 21:39 -0500, Robert L Cochran wrote: > I'm not sure if this is a real bug or my own dumb mistake. > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431808 > > I played with Tomcat just once last December, and remember seeing the > welcome page come up. But now after giving it more thought I'm fuzzy > on whether it was on that machine or a different one. If you detect a > dumb mistake here, feel free to tell me. ---- I am not using tomcat on Fedora but it occurs to me after reading your bug report... try /sbin/service tomcat5 stop and then after service is stopped, see if any tomcat processes remain and see if anything is still using port 8080 ps aux|grep tomcat and netstat -an|grep 8080 It appears from the snippet of the catalina.out logs that something was still running on port 8080 when you started it up. Craig