Bug#756137: java.io.IOException: Failed to access resource /WEB-INF/lib/jstl.jar

[Brian Burch]

On 27/07/14 16:06, tony mancill wrote:
> On 07/26/2014 09:59 AM, Brian Burch wrote:
>> Package: tomcat7-examples
>> Version: 7.0.52-1
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>> The tomcat7 examples webapp does not start after a clean install. The stack trace follows:
>
> Hello Brian,
>
> Thank you for the bug report.  I'm not able to reproduce this with the
> current version of the package in Debian testing, 7.0.54-2.  This may be
> a larger problem for Ubuntu trusty, since 7.0.52-1 is the released
> version there.
>
>> Debian Release: jessie/sid
>>    APT prefers trusty-updates
>>    APT policy: (500, 'trusty-updates'), (500, 'trusty-security'), (500, 'trusty')
>> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>>
>> Kernel: Linux 3.13.0-32-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
>> Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
>> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>>
>> Versions of packages tomcat7-examples depends on:
>> ii  libjakarta-taglibs-standard-java  1.1.2-2ubuntu1
>> ii  libjstl1.1-java                   1.1.2-2ubuntu1
>> ii  tomcat7-common                    7.0.52-1
>
> I notice from the system information that you might be running a mixture
> of Ubuntu and Debian.

Actually, I generated the bug report on a ubuntu 14.04 desktop system 
with the reportbug tool (using the --bts debian option) because the 
machine which runs tomcat in production cannot easily send emails.

The tomcat system which produced the error is running lubuntu 14.04, but 
I cross-checked and both systems have the same package versions installed.

My desktop has been upgraded through at least 10 ubuntu versions, and 
generally messed around with a lot, so I didn't try to reproduce the 
"bug" on it - I just used it to create the bug report.

>  Could you try the 7.0.54-2 package either from
> utopic or Debian testing (jessie)?

No need! I just downloaded tomcat7-examples_7.0.52-1_all.deb from the 
ubuntu trusty 14.04 repository and unpacked it. I was surprised to 
discover that the /etc/tomcat7/Catalina/localhost/examples.xml file 
inside the package has the allowLinking="true" element in its context.

I don't remember doing it, but I must have replaced the distributed 
context with an older version while customising the system to run under 
my own virtual host name.

I apologise for opening this bug report and wasting your time. Please 
close it as invalid.

Thanks for your help,

Brian

> Thank you,
> tony
>
>