title: Can't start/deploy Apache Tomcat from Eclipse
body: <p>I'm trying to deploy a Java project on an Apache Tomcat server from my test environment (Eclipse Kepler on Linux Ubuntu).</p>
  
  <p>But the Tomcat item in the Servers tab is blocked with the label "Stopping". In the context menu, the Start, Stop, Publish and Clean options are grayed out.</p>
  
  <p>If I click on "Clean Work Directory", there's an alert dialog with the message: "The state of the Tomcat server is in transition or unknown. Try again when the server has reached a stable state". The Ok button is greyed out, only Cancel is available.</p>
  
  <p>I have restarted Eclipse, and the same problem appears. On the System monitor there's no Apache Tomcat program.</p>
  
  <p>Any suggestions on how to solve this issue, other than removing the Tomcat configuration from Eclipse?</p>