D4Science Infrastructure

After the last upgrade, the tomcat container fails to start with a lot of the following exceptions in the catalina.log:

2017-09-13 14:07:58,659 [localhost-startStop-1] ERROR org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig- Unable to process Jar entry [javassist/util/proxy/SerializedProxy$1.class] from Jar [jar:file:/home/gcube/tomcat/webapps/whn-manager/WEB-INF/lib/javassist-3.20.0-GA.jar!/] for annotations
java.io.EOFException
    at java.io.DataInputStream.readUnsignedShort(DataInputStream.java:340)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.bcel.classfile.Utility.swallowMethodParameters(Utility.java:796)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.bcel.classfile.Attribute.readAttribute(Attribute.java:171)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.bcel.classfile.FieldOrMethod.<init>(FieldOrMethod.java:57)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.bcel.classfile.Method.<init>(Method.java:71)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.bcel.classfile.ClassParser.readMethods(ClassParser.java:267)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.bcel.classfile.ClassParser.parse(ClassParser.java:127)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotationsStream(ContextConfig.java:2058)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotationsJar(ContextConfig.java:1934)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotationsUrl(ContextConfig.java:1900)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotations(ContextConfig.java:1885)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.webConfig(ContextConfig.java:1317)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.configureStart(ContextConfig.java:876)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java:374)
    at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:117)
    at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleBase.java:90)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5378)
    at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:901)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:877)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:649)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:1083)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployWar.run(HostConfig.java:1880)
    at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

This problem seems to be related to the current tomcat version: 7.0.55 and it seems to be fixed in the next version: 7.0.56 as reported here: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/changelog.html

Is it possible to upgrade the tomcat container to 7.0.56 version?

The smartgears node is the following:

node56.p.d4science.research-infrastructures.eu