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In Eclipse Tomcat doesn't start with error message "'Starting Tomcat v7.0 Server at localhost' has encountered a problem. Server Tomcat v7.0 Server at localhost failed to start.". In the console the last output is Exception in thread "main".

When removing all projects from the server, Tomcat starts fine.

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This is a memory related problem. It can be misleading since there is no Exception: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError shown in the console. The only way to get a hint about a memory issue is opting for "Debugging" when running the server. You then get the familiar java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space error.

To solve the problem increase the memory for Tomcat in Run configurations -> Your Tomcat Server name -> Arguments tab and then add -Xms120m -Xmx2048m -XX:MaxPermSize=1024m in the VM arguments.

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