Bug#323596: tomcat4: Does not start

[Wolfgang Baer]

merge 323596 316580
thanks

Hi Jim,

Jim Lynch wrote:

> Using JAVA_HOME:       /usr/lib/kaffe
> 
> Using Security Manager
> Internal error: caught an unexpected exception.
> Please check your CLASSPATH and your installation.
> java/lang/ExceptionInInitializerError
>         at
> 	java.lang.ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader(ClassLoader.java:772)

Kaffe in sarge has a broken SecurityManager.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=316580

> 
> I then attempted to compile a small java program with 1.4 and got the
> same message from the compiler.  For some reason the Sun java package
> isn't working.  I used the rpm file and alien to generate a deb package
> which I installed. 

Please use java-package to create a sun jdk deb for installing, instead
of rpm/alien. You will find it in contrib and it will work with the
.bin files from sun and blackdown.

Regards,
Wolfgang