Bug#315038: tomcat5: Tomcat5 doesn't start after installation

[Timo Juhani Lindfors]

Package: tomcat5
Version: 5.0.30-10
Followup-For: Bug #315038

This bug seems to still affect tomcat5 5.0.30-10 in unstable.

$ sudo sh -x /etc/init.d/tomcat5 start
+ PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
+ NAME=tomcat5
+ DESC='Tomcat 5 servlet engine'
+ CATALINA_HOME=/usr/share/tomcat5
+ DAEMON=/usr/share/tomcat5/bin/catalina.sh
+ DEFAULT=/etc/default/tomcat5
+ TOMCAT5_USER=tomcat5
+ JDK_DIRS='/usr/lib/j2sdk1.4-sun /usr/lib/j2sdk1.4-blackdown /usr/lib/j2se/1.4 /usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-sun /usr/lib/j2sdk1.3-sun /usr/lib/j2sdk1.3-blackdown /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj /usr/lib/kaffe'
+ CATALINA_BASE=/var/lib/tomcat5
+ TOMCAT5_SECURITY=yes
+ TOMCAT5_SHUTDOWN=30
+ '[' -f /etc/default/tomcat5 ']'
+ . /etc/default/tomcat5
+ test -f /usr/share/tomcat5/bin/catalina.sh
++ id -u
+ '[' 0 -ne 0 ']'
+ '[' -z tomcat5 ']'
+ for jdir in '$JDK_DIRS'
+ '[' -r /usr/lib/j2sdk1.4-sun/bin/java -a -z '' ']'
+ for jdir in '$JDK_DIRS'
+ '[' -r /usr/lib/j2sdk1.4-blackdown/bin/java -a -z '' ']'
+ for jdir in '$JDK_DIRS'
+ '[' -r /usr/lib/j2se/1.4/bin/java -a -z '' ']'
+ for jdir in '$JDK_DIRS'
+ '[' -r /usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-sun/bin/java -a -z '' ']'
+ for jdir in '$JDK_DIRS'
+ '[' -r /usr/lib/j2sdk1.3-sun/bin/java -a -z '' ']'
+ for jdir in '$JDK_DIRS'
+ '[' -r /usr/lib/j2sdk1.3-blackdown/bin/java -a -z '' ']'
+ for jdir in '$JDK_DIRS'
+ '[' -r /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/bin/java -a -z '' ']'
+ JAVA_HOME_TMP=/usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj
+ '[' -r /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/bin/jdb ']'
+ for jdir in '$JDK_DIRS'
+ '[' -r /usr/lib/kaffe/bin/java -a -z '' ']'
+ export JAVA_HOME
+ '[' -z '' ']'
+ CATALINA_OPTS='-Djava.awt.headless=true -Xmx128M'
+ '[' -n '' ']'
+ CATALINA_PID=/var/lib/tomcat5/temp/tomcat5.pid
+ STARTUP_OPTS=
+ '[' yes = yes ']'
+ STARTUP_OPTS=-security
+ '[' -z '' -a -r /jre/lib/jsse.jar ']'
+ export CATALINA_HOME CATALINA_BASE CATALINA_OPTS CATALINA_PID JSSE_HOME
+ case "$1" in
+ '[' -z '' ']'
+ echo 'Could not start Tomcat 5 servlet engine because no Java Development Kit'
Could not start Tomcat 5 servlet engine because no Java Development Kit
+ echo '(JDK) was found. Please download and install JDK 1.3 or higher and set'
(JDK) was found. Please download and install JDK 1.3 or higher and set
+ echo 'JAVA_HOME in /etc/default/tomcat5 to the JDK'\''s installation directory.'
JAVA_HOME in /etc/default/tomcat5 to the JDK's installation directory.
+ exit 0

Test for /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/bin/jdb seems to succeed if I apt-get
install java-gcj-compat-dev. How about making java-gcj-compat-dev a
dependency?


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.32sauna0
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages tomcat5 depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.95       Add and remove users and groups
ii  apache2-utils [apache-utils]  2.0.55-4   utility programs for webservers
ii  gij-4.1 [java2-runtime]       4.1.1-9    The GNU Java bytecode interpreter
ii  java-gcj-compat-dev           1.0.56-2   Java runtime environment with GCJ
ii  kaffe                         2:1.1.7-3  A JVM to run Java bytecode
ii  kaffe-pthreads [kaffe]        2:1.1.7-3  A POSIX threads enabled version of
ii  libtomcat5-java               5.0.30-10  Java Servlet engine -- core librar

tomcat5 recommends no packages.