tomcat5.5 does not start

[Terrence Brannon]

For some reason, tomcat5.5 will not start on port 8180 as documented.
I am running Debian/etch


root at li2-168:/usr/share/tomcat5.5/bin# env | grep JAVA
JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.14/
root at li2-168:/usr/share/tomcat5.5/bin# ./startup.sh
Using CATALINA_BASE:   /usr/share/tomcat5.5
Using CATALINA_HOME:   /usr/share/tomcat5.5
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/share/tomcat5.5/temp
Using JRE_HOME:       /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.14/
root at li2-168:/usr/share/tomcat5.5/bin# telnet localhost 8180
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
root at li2-168:/usr/share/tomcat5.5/bin#

root at li2-168:/usr/share/tomcat5.5/bin# ./shutdown.sh
Using CATALINA_BASE:   /usr/share/tomcat5.5
Using CATALINA_HOME:   /usr/share/tomcat5.5
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/share/tomcat5.5/temp
Using JRE_HOME:       /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.14/
Dec 4, 2008 10:24:14 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina stopServer
SEVERE: Catalina.stop:
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:333)
        at 
java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:195)
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:182)
        at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:366)
        at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:520)
        at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:470)
        at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:367)
        at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:180)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.stopServer(Catalina.java:394)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at 
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl\
.java:39)
        at 
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAcce\
ssorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.stopServer(Bootstrap.java:343)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:434)
root at li2-168:/usr/share/tomcat5.5/bin#
root at li2-168:/usr/share/tomcat5.5/conf# ls -l
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 3 root     root 1024 Dec  4 13:48 Catalina
-rw-r--r-- 1 root     root 9194 Dec  4 21:23 catalina.policy
-rw-r--r-- 1 root     root 3114 Jun  8 17:45 catalina.properties
-rw-r--r-- 1 root     root  330 Jun  8 17:45 context.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root     root 2824 Jun  8 17:45 logging.properties
-rw-r--r-- 1 root     root  851 Jun  8 17:45 server-minimal.xml
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root     root   25 Dec  4 13:48 server.xml -> 
/etc/tomcat5.5/serve\
r.xml
-rw------- 1 tomcat55 adm   440 Dec  4 13:49 tomcat-users.xml
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root     root   22 Dec  4 13:48 web.xml -> 
/etc/tomcat5.5/web.xml
root at li2-168:/usr/share/tomcat5.5/conf# grep 8180 server.xml
         By default, a non-SSL HTTP/1.1 Connector is established on port 
8180.
    <!-- Define a non-SSL HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 8180 -->
    <Connector port="8180" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192"
root at li2-168:/usr/share/tomcat5.5/conf#