tomcat5.5 5.5.26-1 testing and unstable

[Michael Koch]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 03:06:39PM +0100, Paul Cager wrote:
> 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.

That's already solved in SVN in a different way. Upload comes soon.


Cheers,
Michael