tomcat启动错误 A child container failed during start

严重: A child container failed during start 
java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component [StandardEngine[Catalina].StandardHost[localhost].StandardContext[/SimpleLogin]] 
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerGet(Unknown Source) 
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(Unknown Source) 
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.startInternal(ContainerBase.java:1123) 
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.startInternal(StandardHost.java:785) 
    at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150) 
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1559) 
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1549) 
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(Unknown Source) 
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source) 
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(Unknown Source) 
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source) 
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) 
Caused by: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component [StandardEngine[Catalina].StandardHost[localhost].StandardContext[/SimpleLogin]] 
    at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:154) 
    ... 7 more 
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid <url-pattern> * in servlet mapping 
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.addServletMapping(StandardContext.java:3217) 
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.addServletMapping(StandardContext.java:3192) 
    at org.apache.catalina.deploy.WebXml.configureContext(WebXml.java:1302) 
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.webConfig(ContextConfig.java:1323) 
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.configureStart(ContextConfig.java:855) 
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java:346) 
    at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119) 
    at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleBase.java:90) 
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5173) 
    at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150) 
    ... 7 more 
2012-8-23 14:28:31 org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase startInternal 
严重: A child container failed during start 
java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component [StandardEngine[Catalina].StandardHost[localhost]] 
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerGet(Unknown Source)  ...


主要原因是web.xml中servlet路径没有配置好，晕，看来servlet的配置会影响tomcat启动。记得有一次是server.xml没配置好，也影响了tomcat启动。