When Tomcat starts: IOException while loading persistent sessions: java.io.EOFException Solutions for

This is due to the fact that when Tomcat was shut down abnormally last time, some active sessions were persisted (as some temporary files). When it was restarted, Tomcat tried to recover the persistent data of these sessions, but failed to read them. This exception does not affect the use of the system.

Solution: all the files in Catalina directory can be deleted.
all the files in Catalina directory can be deleted

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