Bug#408202: tomcat5.5: will not start, no log files generated

[Moshe Yudkowsky]

Package: tomcat5.5
Version: 5.5.20-4
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


My attempt to install tomcat5.5 has failed. (Tomcat5 still runs cleanly.) Although apt-get seems to have proceeded without problems, and even though an attempt to start tomcat5.5 seems to work:

# /etc/init.d/tomcat5.5 start
Starting Tomcat servlet engine: tomcat5.5.

tomcat5.5 does not actually start:

# telnet localhost 8180
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

and no log files are generated at all in /var/log/tomcat5.5 .

I've been through the configuration files and I've set JAVA_HOME to point to the correct directory via a modification to /etc/default/tomcat5.5. I'm using official Sun JDK 1.6.0, which is linked to via a symlink called /usr/local/share/jdk, regardless of "kaffe" in the printout below. (I assume that this still works in tomcat5.5, as it did in tomcat5, without any modifications to server.xml).

The /var/lib/tomcat5.5/conf/server.xml file has correct information, or at least reasonable default information, and I've uncommented the first "logger" entry in that file.

Please let me know if you need further information; while I expect this is a config/conflict problem, I'm unable to proceed as I can't even get log files or any sort of crash message. Please also note that I uninstalled all tomcat5.5 apps. I have not tried re-installling tomcat5.5-webapps or tomcat5.5-admin.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-k7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages tomcat5.5 depends on:
ii  adduser              3.102               Add and remove users and groups
ii  blackdown-j2re1.4deb 0.18                Debian specific parts of Java(TM) 
ii  ecj-bootstrap        3.2.1-5             standalone version of the Eclipse 
ii  gij-4.1 [java2-runti 4.1.1-20            The GNU Java bytecode interpreter
ii  java-gcj-compat-dev  1.0.65-10           Java runtime environment with GCJ
ii  jsvc                 1.0.2~svn20061127-4 wrapper to launch Java application
ii  kaffe                2:1.1.7-4           A JVM to run Java bytecode
ii  kaffe-pthreads [kaff 2:1.1.7-4           A POSIX threads enabled version of
ii  libtomcat5.5-java    5.5.20-4            Java Servlet engine -- core librar

tomcat5.5 recommends no packages.

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