I shut down NetBeans and stopped the server
(because can't stop from IDE, see #39671). I
restarted NetBeans and tried to start the server
by right-clicking the node, choosing Start / Stop
server and clicking Start. The dialog hangs and
the following appears in the Output window.

Using CATALINA_BASE:   C:\Documents and
Settings\Administrator\My Documents\temp
Using CATALINA_HOME:   C:\Program Files\Apache
Software Foundation\Tomcat 5.0
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: C:\Documents and
Settings\Administrator\My Documents\temp\temp
Using JAVA_HOME:       C:\Program
Files\j2sdk_nb\j2sdk1.4.2
Feb 5, 2004 4:38:42 PM
org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 0 ms
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
        at
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native
Method)
        at
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)Can't
load server.xml
Can't load server.xml

        at
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
        at
org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:297)
        at
org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:398)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at
org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.await(Catalina.java:661)
        at
org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:621)
        ... 6 more