The problems occurs in sonatype nexus product too.
I found it deploying nexus-2.3.1-01.war on tomcat 6.
You can find nexus src here: http://www.sonatype.org/nexus/archived.
The stacktrace:
INFO | jvm 1 | 2013/03/01 12:22:13 | Exception in thread "TP-Processor2" java.lang.ClassCircularityError: java/util/logging/LogRecord
INFO | jvm 1 | 2013/03/01 12:22:13 | at org.slf4j.bridge.SLF4JBridgeHandler.getSLF4JLogger(SLF4JBridgeHandler.java:200)
INFO | jvm 1 | 2013/03/01 12:22:13 | at org.slf4j.bridge.SLF4JBridgeHandler.publish(SLF4JBridgeHandler.java:289)
INFO | jvm 1 | 2013/03/01 12:22:13 | at java.util.logging.Logger.log(Logger.java:478)
INFO | jvm 1 | 2013/03/01 12:22:13 | at java.util.logging.Logger.doLog(Logger.java:500)
INFO | jvm 1 | 2013/03/01 12:22:13 | at java.util.logging.Logger.logp(Logger.java:616)
INFO | jvm 1 | 2013/03/01 12:22:13 | at org.apache.juli.logging.DirectJDKLog.log(DirectJDKLog.java:165)
INFO | jvm 1 | 2013/03/01 12:22:13 | at org.apache.juli.logging.DirectJDKLog.error(DirectJDKLog.java:131)
INFO | jvm 1 | 2013/03/01 12:22:13 | at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:699)
INFO | jvm 1 | 2013/03/01 12:22:13 | at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
INFO | jvm 1 | 2013/03/01 12:22:14 | Exception in thread "ContainerBackgroundProcessor[StandardEngine[Catalina]]" java.lang.ClassCircularityError: java/util/logging/LogRecord
INFO | jvm 1 | 2013/03/01 12:22:14 | at org.slf4j.bridge.SLF4JBridgeHandler.getSLF4JLogger(SLF4JBridgeHandler.java:200)
INFO | jvm 1 | 2013/03/01 12:22:14 | at org.slf4j.bridge.SLF4JBridgeHandler.publish(SLF4JBridgeHandler.java:289)
INFO | jvm 1 | 2013/03/01 12:22:14 | at java.util.logging.Logger.log(Logger.java:478)
INFO | jvm 1 | 2013/03/01 12:22:14 | at java.util.logging.Logger.doLog(Logger.java:500)
INFO | jvm 1 | 2013/03/01 12:22:14 | at java.util.logging.Logger.logp(Logger.java:700)
INFO | jvm 1 | 2013/03/01 12:22:14 | at org.apache.juli.logging.DirectJDKLog.log(DirectJDKLog.java:167)
INFO | jvm 1 | 2013/03/01 12:22:14 | at org.apache.juli.logging.DirectJDKLog.error(DirectJDKLog.java:135)
INFO | jvm 1 | 2013/03/01 12:22:14 | at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.processChildren(ContainerBase.java:1603)
INFO | jvm 1 | 2013/03/01 12:22:14 | at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.processChildren(ContainerBase.java:1610)
INFO | jvm 1 | 2013/03/01 12:22:14 | at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.run(ContainerBase.java:1590)
INFO | jvm 1 | 2013/03/01 12:22:14 | at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
INFO | jvm 1 | 2013/03/01 12:26:50 | Exception in thread "TP-Processor3" java.lang.ClassCircularityError: java/util/logging/LogRecord
INFO | jvm 1 | 2013/03/01 12:26:50 | at org.slf4j.bridge.SLF4JBridgeHandler.getSLF4JLogger(SLF4JBridgeHandler.java:200)
INFO | jvm 1 | 2013/03/01 12:26:50 | at org.slf4j.bridge.SLF4JBridgeHandler.publish(SLF4JBridgeHandler.java:289)
INFO | jvm 1 | 2013/03/01 12:26:50 | at java.util.logging.Logger.log(Logger.java:478)
INFO | jvm 1 | 2013/03/01 12:26:50 | at java.util.logging.Logger.doLog(Logger.java:500)
INFO | jvm 1 | 2013/03/01 12:26:50 | at java.util.logging.Logger.logp(Logger.java:616)
INFO | jvm 1 | 2013/03/01 12:26:50 | at org.apache.juli.logging.DirectJDKLog.log(DirectJDKLog.java:165)
INFO | jvm 1 | 2013/03/01 12:26:50 | at org.apache.juli.logging.DirectJDKLog.error(DirectJDKLog.java:131)
INFO | jvm 1 | 2013/03/01 12:26:50 | at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:699)
INFO | jvm 1 | 2013/03/01 12:26:50 | at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)

I didn't find a workaround.
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