Bug#425899: tomcat5.5: Tomcat5.5.20-2 fails to install in Debian etch

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Package: tomcat5.5
Version: 5.5.20-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Unable to install tomcat5.5 in Debian etch system. This section of
'aptitude install tomcat5.5' shows error:
 
Setting up libservlet2.4-java (5.0.30-3) ...
Setting up libcommons-el-java (1.0-3) ...
Setting up libcommons-launcher-java (1.1-3) ...
Setting up liblog4j1.2-java (1.2.13-2) ...
Setting up libmx4j-java (2.1.1-4) ...
Setting up libcommons-modeler-java (1.1-8) ...
Setting up libtomcat5.5-java (5.5.20-2) ...
Setting up tomcat5.5 (5.5.20-2) ...
Adding system user `tomcat55' (UID 110) ...
Adding new user `tomcat55' (UID 110) with group `nogroup' ...
Not creating home directory `/usr/share/tomcat5.5'.
Installing /var/lib/tomcat5.5/conf/tomcat-users.xml.
Starting Tomcat servlet engine: tomcat5.5invoke-rc.d: initscript
tomcat5.5, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing tomcat5.5 (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up libgcj7-dev (4.1.1-20) ...
Setting up gcj-4.1 (4.1.1-20) ...

Setting up java-gcj-compat-dev (1.0.65-10) ...

Setting up libgcj7-src (4.1.1-20) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 tomcat5.5
 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
 A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Setting up tomcat5.5 (5.5.20-2) ...
Starting Tomcat servlet engine: tomcat5.5invoke-rc.d: initscript
 tomcat5.5, action "start" failed.
 dpkg: error processing tomcat5.5 (--configure):
  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  Errors were encountered while processing:
  tomcat5.5
cn2:~/mysql_backup# 

This may be related to bug 418826, because it seems to involve the
init.d/ script.

reportbug resports that there is an updated version of tomcat5.5-20-5 in
unstable, but I'd prefer to stay with the stable etch distribution if I
can.

Thanks for looking into this problem.

-Kevin Zembower


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages tomcat5.5 depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.102      Add and remove users and groups
ii  apache2-utils                 2.2.3-4    utility programs for webservers
ii  apache2.2-common              2.2.3-4    Next generation, scalable, extenda
ii  ecj-bootstrap                 3.2.1-3    bootstrap version of the Eclipse J
ii  gij-4.1 [java2-runtime]       4.1.1-20   The GNU Java bytecode interpreter
ii  java-gcj-compat-dev           1.0.65-10  Java runtime environment with GCJ
ii  libtomcat5.5-java             5.5.20-2   Java Servlet engine -- core librar

tomcat5.5 recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information