Tomcat crashes with linux-sun-jdk14

[jerry palmisano]

I found that when i updraged jdks from 1.3.1 to 1.4.2 i ran into the 
same problem. And then i remembered having to copy the tools.jar form 
$JAVA_HOME/lib to $CATALINA_HOME/common/lib when i installed tomcat. 
when i copied the tools.jar from 1.4.2 to $CATALINA_HOME/common/lib and 
attmpted to start it tcat ran as expected.

hope this helps : jerry