Bug#292448: tomcat4: Tomcat4 won't start w/o webapps

[C. Scott Ananian]

Package: tomcat4
Version: 4.1.31-2
Followup-For: Bug #292448

I saw this, too.  This bug is particularly pernicious because catalina.log
just says,

INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8180
Starting service Tomcat-Standalone
Apache Tomcat/4.1
Catalina.start: LifecycleException:  Context startup failed due to previous errors
LifecycleException:  Context startup failed due to previous errors
[...]
Stopping service Tomcat-Standalone
Catalina.stop: LifecycleException:  Coyote connector has not been started
LifecycleException:  Coyote connector has not been started

ie all indications are that the problem is due to the coyote connector in
some way.  Please fix this!
 --scott

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686-smp
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages tomcat4 depends on:
ii  adduser                3.62              Add and remove users and groups
ii  apache-utils           1.3.33-4          utility programs for webservers (t
ii  apache2-common         2.0.53-4          next generation, scalable, extenda
ii  apache2-utils [apache- 2.0.53-4          utility programs for webservers
ii  gcj [java-compiler]    4:3.3.5-1         The GNU Java compiler
ii  gcj-3.3 [java-compiler 1:3.3.5-8         The GNU compiler for Java(TM)
ii  gij-3.3 [java-virtual- 1:3.3.5-8         The GNU Java bytecode interpreter
ii  java-virtual-machine-d 1.2               Java Virtual Machine dummy package
ii  jikes-classpath [java- 2:0.13-3          wrapper for jikes using classes fr
ii  kaffe                  2:1.1.4.PRECVS8-2 A JVM to run Java bytecode
ii  kaffe-pthreads [kaffe] 2:1.1.4.PRECVS8-2 A POSIX threads enabled version of
ii  libtomcat4-java        4.1.31-2          Java Servlet engine -- core librar

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