Bug#324845: tomcat4: Stopping Tomcat with a cronjob sometimes crashs the System!

[Michael Nitsche]

Package: tomcat4
Version: 4.1.31-3
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system

I've running a cronjob that stops Tomcat, runs updates to the webapps and
starts Tomcat again. Normally its running perfectly. But already two times
in this month the server wasn't reachable and hasn't any log entrys after
running the cronjob. The server answer only to ping, but to nothing else, 
so a external restart is necessary. Heres the line in /etc/crontab:

30 3    * * *   root    /etc/init.d/tomcat4 stop >/dev/null; /root/bald.sh >/dev/null; /etc/init.d/tomcat4 start >/dev/null

The bald.sh-Script have only one rsync-command, that normally has nothing 
to do! The same error already arose without this Script on 
running "/etc/init.d/tomcat4 restart" in /etc/crontab!

When the cronjob running correctly, theres a logentry like

Aug 23 03:30:01 a15176472 /USR/SBIN/CRON[6072]: (root)
CMD (/etc/init.d/tomcat4 stop >/dev/null; ...

in "/var/log/syslog" but after crash, theres really absolutely nothing 
after 03:30:00!

I need the restart of Tomcat also, because after few Days Tomcat forget
the correct Charset. After a restart everything is right!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.30 GrSec
Locale: LANG=de_DE at euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE at euro)

Versions of packages tomcat4 depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.63       Add and remove users and groups
ii  apache2-common                2.0.54-4   next generation, scalable, extenda
ii  apache2-utils [apache-utils]  2.0.54-4   utility programs for webservers
ii  j2re1.4 [java-virtual-machine 1.4.2.02-1 Blackdown Java(TM) 2 Runtime Envir
ii  j2sdk1.4 [java-compiler]      1.4.2.02-1 Blackdown Java(TM) 2 SDK, Standard
ii  libcommons-beanutils-java     1.6.1-4    utility for manipulating JavaBeans
ii  libcommons-collections-java   2.1.1-3    A set of abstract data type interf
ii  libcommons-digester-java      1.5.0.1-4  Rule based XML Java object mapping
ii  libcommons-logging-java       1.0.4-2    The commmon wrapper interface for 
ii  libtomcat4-java               4.1.31-3   Java Servlet engine -- core librar

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