That message is a generic one created by Windows because it doesn't know 
what happened.  Take a look at the logs in the logs directory of your 
tomcat installation for detailed information on why it didn't work.

--David

Dhanapal, Manikandan wrote:

>Hi,
>   I am unable to start the tomcat service. it is giving error like "The
>Apache Tomcat PFProd service on Local computer started and then stopped.
>some services stop automaticallyif they have no work to do,for example,
>the Performance Logs and Alerts services". please help me to resolve
>this issue.
>
>I have created 3 services and try to start the service. but it is giving
>error as i mentioned earlier. Please refer the screenshot for the error
>message. I am using tomcat version 5.5.9.
>
>Thanks,
>-Manikandan.
>
>  
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