Bug#412690: tomcat5.5: should load capability module if required

[Michael Koch]

On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:14:35PM +0200, ROBERTOJIMENOCA at terra.es wrote:
> Michael Koch wrote:
> > On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 05:55:07PM +0200, ROBERTOJIMENOCA at terra.es wrote:
> > > Marcus Better wrote:
> > > > > It seems like since I updated to tomcat5.5_5.5.26 I am having this problem.
> > > > > May  5 14:34:04 localhost jsvc.exec[7386]: check that your kernel supports capabilities
> > > > 
> > > > Does it? What does "grep CAPAB /boot/config-2.6.25-1-686" say?
> > > 
> > > $ grep CAPAB /boot/config-2.6.25-1-686
> > > CONFIG_SECURITY_CAPABILITIES=y
> > > CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES=y
> > 
> > And do you actually run that kernel? Does it work with an older kernel
> > for you?
> > 
> > Or mayby the kernel interface for that changed..
> 
> I think it is not linux kernel related because it also fails with
> linux-image-2.6.24-1-686 and I remember to have the previous tomcat5.5_5.5.25 running.
> Looking at the logs seems that the installation of tomcat5.5_5.5.26
> caused it to stop running anymore, but I can not confirm it.
> 
> Are you able to run an unmodified tomcat5.5_5.5.26 from unstable?

I run 5.5.26-2 (thats the version from unstable plus the classpath fix).
It runs without problems here.

Please give us the output of the two following commands to be sure:

cat /proc/version

grep CAPA /boot/config-`uname -r`


Cheers,
Michael