Bug#259155: tomcat4: catalina.out has turned into a named pipe!

[Roland Turner]

Package: tomcat4
Version: 4.0.4-4
Severity: grave

/var/log/tomcat4/catalina.out on my system is a named pipe. I am
certain that I did not cause this to happen. This
of course breaks things very badly, "invoke-rc.d tomcat4 start"
blocks forever and therefore "apt-get upgrade" is unable to
complete.

(It is because this bug breaks "unrelated packages" (apt no
less!) that I've marked this as grave. If this is inappropriate,
then by all means mark it down.)

Workaround to unblock "apt-get upgrade":

	# cat /var/local/tomcat4/catalina.out

- Raz

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.6-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages tomcat4 depends on:
ii  adduser                      3.57        Add and remove users and groups
ii  j2re1.3 [java2-runtime]      1.3.1.02b-2 Blackdown Java(TM) 2 Runtime Envir
ii  j2sdk1.3                     1.3.1.02b-2 Blackdown Java(TM) 2 SDK, Standard
ii  libtomcat4-java              4.0.4-4     Java Servlet engine -- core librar
ii  logrotate                    3.7-2       Log rotation utility
ii  sysvinit                     2.85-22     System-V like init

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