Tomcat 7 getting CreateJavaVM Failed Error

Question

I have an Apache tomcat 7.0.5 Server on a Windows R2 Server and I've deployed a webApp ( java JSF) on it, everything was working fine, but it suddenly stopped and won't run again. when I try to run it, it tells me "Error 1067: The Process terminated unexpectedly" and In the logs I get these files:

tomcat7-stdout.2012-08-08.log

2012-08-08 18:00:06 Commons Daemon procrun stdout initialized

commons-daemon.2012-08-08.log

[2012-08-08 19:02:30] [info]  Commons Daemon procrun finished
[2012-08-08 19:13:02] [info]  Commons Daemon procrun (1.0.4.0 64-bit) started
[2012-08-08 19:13:02] [info]  Running 'Tomcat7' Service...
[2012-08-08 19:13:02] [info]  Starting service...
[2012-08-08 19:13:02] [error] CreateJavaVM Failed
[2012-08-08 19:13:03] [info]  Service started in 1000 ms.
[2012-08-08 19:13:03] [info]  Run service finished.
[2012-08-08 19:13:03] [info]  Commons Daemon procrun finished

tomcat7-stderr.2012-08-08.log

2012-08-08 18:00:06 Commons Daemon procrun stderr initialized
Please use CMSClassUnloadingEnabled in place of CMSPermGenSweepingEnabled in the future
Unrecognized VM option '+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError '

since I was having some 'perm gen' memory error I added some stuff to my apache Tomcat properties, folowing this link how to handle Perm Gen

so my Java Options look like this:

-Dcatalina.home=C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 7.0
-Dcatalina.base=C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 7.0
-Djava.endorsed.dirs=C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 7.0\endorsed
-Djava.io.tmpdir=C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 7.0\temp
-Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager
-Djava.util.logging.config.file=C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 7.0\conf\logging.properties
-XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled
-XX:+CMSPermGenSweepingEnabled
-XX:PermSize=256m
-XX:MaxPermSize=256m
-XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError 

Any ideas as to why the server won't start anymore? THANKS!

~Myy

Answer 1

After spending hours trying to figure this out, I finally found it. I had an extra space at the end of VM command.

 '+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError ' 

which was giving me the Unrecognized VM option.....

Thanks for reading, hopefully when you get this error, you can take extra precautions to verify the syntax.

Answer 2

to manage the memory you need to set some Xms and Xmx parameter

• Xms manages the initial heap size
• Xmx manages the maximum heap size

Thus try to add :

-Xms=256m -Xmx=256m

regards

Answer 3

The error is on option "HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError" which is not even listed in your post. Can you post a screen print of the "Java" tab from the "tomcat" service screen (similar to the link you have provided) ? This will tell us the actual options you are using and also the memory you have set.

Answer 4

copy the file msvcr71.dll from the bin dir of your java installation, to the bin dir of the tomcat installation.