I hope this helps someone else.
For what it's worth: I'm pretty sure there is a bug in the dependencies of the tomcat5 package.
The error below should be fixed if you install the package:
xml-commons-apis
The xml-commons package is installed, but the "apis" package is required and is NOT installed. Not sure who to report this to at Fedora...but that fixed it for me.
(Also, there were warnings about this file during the yum installation of tomcat5)
Error details below:
After installing tomcat5 via yum, you get errors like this in the tomcat log (/usr/share/tomcat5/logs/catalina.out):
Bootstrap: Class loader creation threw exception
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: addRepositoryInternal: repository='file:/usr/share/tomcat5/common/endorsed/[xml-commons-apis].jar'
at org.apache.catalina.loader.StandardClassLoader.add RepositoryInternal(java.lang.String) (/usr/lib/libtomcat-bootstrap-5.0.30.jar.so)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.StandardClassLoader.Sta ndardClassLoader(java.lang.String[]) (/usr/lib/libtomcat-bootstrap-5.0.30.jar.so)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ClassLoaderFactory.cre ateClassLoader(java.io.File[], java.io.File[], java.net.URL[], java.lang.ClassLoader) (/usr/lib/libtomcat-bootstrap-5.0.30.jar.so)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.createClassL oader(java.lang.String, java.lang.ClassLoader) (/usr/lib/libtomcat-bootstrap-5.0.30.jar.so)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.initClassLoa ders() (/usr/lib/libtomcat-bootstrap-5.0.30.jar.so)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.init() (/usr/lib/libtomcat-bootstrap-5.0.30.jar.so)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(java.la ng.String[]) (/usr/lib/libtomcat-bootstrap-5.0.30.jar.so)
at gnu.java.lang.MainThread.call_main() (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
at gnu.java.lang.MainThread.run() (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /usr/share/tomcat5/common/endorsed/[xml-commons-apis].jar (No such file or directory)
at gnu.java.nio.channels.FileChannelImpl.open(java.la ng.String, int) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
at gnu.java.nio.channels.FileChannelImpl.FileChannelI mpl(java.lang.String, int) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
at java.io.RandomAccessFile.RandomAccessFile(java.lan g.String, java.lang.String) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
at java.util.zip.ZipFile.ZipFile(java.lang.String) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
at java.util.jar.JarFile.JarFile(java.lang.String, boolean) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
at java.util.jar.JarFile.JarFile(java.lang.String) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.StandardClassLoader.add RepositoryInternal(java.lang.String) (/usr/lib/libtomcat-bootstrap-5.0.30.jar.so)
...8 more
At this point, the link shown in the error message above is broken because the xml-commons-apis.jar was never installed.
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