Tomcat fails to load: PeekInputStream.readFully

[Johnny Gara]

I recently "rebooted: my computer, but when restarting tomcat (which may not have been allowed to gracefully shutdown), I got the following exception

SEVERE: IOException while loading persisted sessions: java.io.EOFException
java.io.EOFException
at java.io.ObjectInputStream$PeekInputStream. readFully(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream. readShort(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readStreamHeader(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.<init>(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.catalina.util.CustomObjectInputStream.<init>(CustomObjectInputStream.java:58)
at org.apache.catalina.session.StandardManager.doLoad(StandardManager.java:362)
at org.apache.catalina.session.StandardManager.load(StandardManager.java:321)
at org.apache.catalina.session.StandardManager.start(StandardManager.java:637)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.setManager(ContainerBase.java:432)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4160)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:760)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:740)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:544)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:831)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:720)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:490)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1149)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:311)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:120)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1022)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:736)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1014)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:448)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:700)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:552)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:295)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:433)
Aug 21, 2008 12:09:27 PM org.apache.catalina.session.StandardManager start
SEVERE: Exception loading sessions from persistent storage
java.io.EOFException
at java.io.ObjectInputStream$PeekInputStream.readFully(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream.readShort(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readStreamHeader(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.<init>(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.catalina.util.CustomObjectInputStream.<init>(CustomObjectInputStream.java:58)
at org.apache.catalina.session.StandardManager.doLoad(StandardManager.java:362)
at org.apache.catalina.session.StandardManager.load(StandardManager.java:321)
at org.apache.catalina.session.StandardManager.start(StandardManager.java:637)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.setManager(ContainerBase.java:432)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4160)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:760)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:740)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:544)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:831)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:720)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:490)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1149)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:311)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:120)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1022)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:736)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1014)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:448)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:700)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:552)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:295)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:433)

Anyone know what's causing this? This makes tomcat fail to load (ie: going to http://localhost:8080 results in a hung request).