spring-boot: NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/catalina/Lifecycle$SingleUse during shutdown

Hello. I’m on 1.4.0.RELEASE. My app is pretty basic, but what can be important here, I’m using @EnableScheduling. Often, not always, when I ctrl-c or kill my app (run by ./<jar>.jar) I’m getting below error:

Exception in thread "Thread-2" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/catalina/Lifecycle$SingleUse
    at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.stop(LifecycleBase.java:235)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.Tomcat.stop(Tomcat.java:366)
    at org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.tomcat.TomcatEmbeddedServletContainer.stopTomcat(TomcatEmbeddedServletContainer.java:225)
    at org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.tomcat.TomcatEmbeddedServletContainer.stop(TomcatEmbeddedServletContainer.java:277)
    at org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.stopAndReleaseEmbeddedServletContainer(EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.java:306)
    at org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.onClose(EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.java:155)
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.doClose(AbstractApplicationContext.java:1010)
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext$2.run(AbstractApplicationContext.java:923)

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Created 8 years ago
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Suffering the same issue, but I have a theory for mine: I’m deploying a new jar on top of the existing one before stopping. This will most likely cause problems when the JVM tries to locate the class, if not loaded before, given the classloader reference to the previous jar is now invalid.

Replacing live jar/s used to cause JVM 5/6 SISSEGVs in Solaris. At least this is just an exception.

eduardocorral on Nov 3, 2016

Very late to the party, but we were encountering the same issue and this was the first Google hit. The problem can be consistently reproduced by replacing the jar (or change the symlink) and then trying to stop it. We are using ansible for deployments and we ensured the boot app was completely stopped before changing the jar:

- name: stop app
  service: name={{ springapp_service_name }} state=stopped
  when: maven_result.changed

- name: wait for the app to be fully stopped
  wait_for:
    port: "{{ springapp_tcpport }}"
    state: stopped
    delay: 5

- name: change symlink to current version
  file:
    src: "{{ maven_result.dest }}"
    dest: "{{ springapp_dir }}/{{ springapp_jar }}"
    state: link
    owner: "{{ springapp_user }}"
    group: "{{ springapp_user }}"
  notify: restart {{ springapp_service_name }}
  when: maven_result.changed

oharsta on Sep 16, 2020