tomcat5.5 5.5.26-1 testing and unstable

[Paul Cager]

John Davos wrote:
> Good Day All,
> 
> I installed tomcat5.5.26-1on testing and unstable and the startup script
> (/etc/init.d/tomcat5.5) doesn't start tomcat and exits without output in the
> log or at console. I started with a fresh install of debian testing
> I know this method of starting tomcat works with tomcat5.5.20-2etch2 there
> are too many differences that I can't decipher between the startup scripts
> of the two versions for me to fix it myself.
> 
> Any info or suggestions would be greatly appreciated, thank you for your
> time and effort!
> 
This sounds like
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=477363. If you have a
look at that bug report, someone has suggested a patch as follows:

"
 fixed the bug by adding an appropriate entry for
"commons-logging-api.jar" to the CLASSPATH of jsvc. Hence I changed line
122 of "/etc/init.d/tomcat5.5" to:

    JSVC_CLASSPATH="/usr/share/java/commons-daemon.jar:
                   $CATALINA_HOME/bin/bootstrap.jar:
                   $CATALINA_HOME/bin/commons-logging-api.jar"

(Linebreaks added for the sake of clarity. In the original file this is
all on one line, with no whitespace in between.)
"

I expect that's the problem here, but please let us know if not.