Spring Boot 2: Unable to start tomcat - spring-boot

Question

I am new to spring boot.. Getting started by referring to the link: https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/getting-started-first-application.html
After running the project its not starting the tomcat server.. Getting the error as [ERROR] error reading /home/rahul/.m2/repository/org/apache/tomcat/embed/tomcat-embed-core/8.5.31/tomcat-embed-core-8.5.31.jar; invalid LOC header (bad signature)
Not able to address this issue.. Any help would be appreciated..
Thanks a lot in advance..
My code is like below,
pom.xml
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.wocs</groupId>
<artifactId>REST</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>2.0.2.RELEASE</version>
</parent>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>
Example.java
import org.springframework.boot.*;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.*;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.*;
#RestController
#EnableAutoConfiguration
public class Example {
#RequestMapping("/")
String home() {
return "Hello World!";
}
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
SpringApplication.run(Example.class, args);
}
}

Answer 1

Seems like you have a corrupted file. Try clean your maven cache with rm -rf ~/.m2/repository and run again

Answer 2

Looks like you have a corrupted jar that is under your default MAVEN folder. You can delete the specific jar file that is causing this issue and trying the follow should help!
Take a Maven update by right clicking on your Project -> then select Maven and then click on 'Update Project'. You've got to wait until these dependencies are downloaded.
Run target Clean Maven (Project -> Run as -> Clean Maven)
Then finally Install Maven (Project -> Run as -> Install Maven)
These steps should resolve your invalid LOC header error.

Answer 3

Here is what worked for me on Windows 10:
Deleted this jar file from the shell command line
mvn spring-boot:run
After that, the jar was downloaded with no error and all is running fine.
and all is running fine