title: Tomcat6 shutdown failed
body: <p>I have tomcat 6.0.32 installed and running my web application on it. Usual stop/start works fine, when the tomcat is properly started or stopped. But when I try to stop the tomcat when it is in the middle of a startup, the stop fails.</p>
  
  <pre><code>$service tomcat6 stop
  
  Stopping tomcat6:                                          [FAILED]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The error in the log is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>SEVERE: Catalina.stop:
  java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
          at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
          at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(Unknown Source)
          at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(Unknown Source)
          at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
          at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
          at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source)
          at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source)
          at java.net.Socket.&lt;init&gt;(Unknown Source)
          at java.net.Socket.&lt;init&gt;(Unknown Source)
          at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.stopServer(Catalina.java:422)
          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.stopServer(Bootstrap.java:338)
          at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:416)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have tried using force as well, but it doesn't work. Does anyone know how can we fix this? </p>
  
  <p>Note: I was able to stop tomcat6 (6.0.24) in the middle of the startup, but it is not working in 6.0.32 version. Any help/info would be a great help!</p>