Red5 2.0.13 - Tomcatloader hangs on "Awaiting plugin loading"

[Andrea-Villa]

Running the the latest red5 2.0.13 tag on ubuntu 24.04 LTS with openjdk-21-jdk

The bootstrap completes but tomcat is never started. red5.log attached:
red5.log

Looking into the code, it seems the tomcat loader hangs in this while loop:

-TomcatLoader.java#202

while (!Red5.isPluginsReady()) {
	log.trace("Waiting for plugins to load");
	Thread.sleep(2000L);
}

There is actuallly a commented line of code that would break out of this loop

-PluginsLauncher.java#127

//Red5.setPluginsReady(true);

Setting awaitPlugins=false in conf/jee-container.xml also works around the while loop, but I imagine there could be side effects. Is this a bug or am I missing something else?

Kind regards