title: tomcat 7 startup error on rhel 5.5
body: <p>i'm trying to set up tomcat 7.0.35 on red hat 5.5.</p>
  
  <p>When i try to start tomcat i have this error in catalina.out</p>
  
  <p><code></p>
  
  <pre><code>WARNING: error instantiating 'org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager' referenced by java.util.logging.manager, class not found
  java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager not found
     &lt;&lt;No stacktrace available&gt;&gt;
  WARNING: error instantiating '1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler,' referenced by handlers, class not found
  java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: 1catalina.org.apache.juli.FileHandler,
     &lt;&lt;No stacktrace available&gt;&gt;
  Exception during runtime initialization
  java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
     &lt;&lt;No stacktrace available&gt;&gt;
  Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
     &lt;&lt;No stacktrace available&gt;&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p></code></p>
  
  <p>I'm using JDK 1.7.0_01 and i set up the JAVA_HOME and PATH</p>
  
  <p>I've the same error with tomcat 6</p>
  
  <p>Can someone help me??</p>