Bug#298314: /etc/init.d/tomcat4 start fails; log says JAVA_HOME is not defined correctly

[Herman Robak]

Package: tomcat4
Version: 4.1.31-2
Severity: important

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The tomcat4 package does not work out of the box on Sid,
using the Kaffe JVM.

Starting tomcat with
/etc/init.d/tomcat4 start
fails.

The log /var/log/tomcat4/catalina_<date>.log says:

The JAVA_HOME environment variable is not defined correctly
This environment variable is needed to run this program
NB: JAVA_HOME should point to a JDK not a JRE

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
   APT prefers unstable
   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9
Locale: LANG=no_NO, LC_CTYPE=no_NO (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages tomcat4 depends on:
ii  adduser                3.59              Add and remove users and groups
ii  apache-utils           1.3.33-3          utility programs for webservers
ii  apache2-utils [apache- 2.0.53-1          utility programs for webservers
ii  j2re1.3 [java-virtual- 1.3.1-1           Blackdown Java(TM) 2 Runtime Envir
ii  jikes-gij [java-compil 1:1.22-2          Wrapper for jikes using GNU GIJ cl
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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Herman Robak