Bug#826257: jetty9: Installation fails "jetty9.pid exists, but jetty was not running"

[Jörg Plate]

Package: jetty9
Version: 9.2.16-1
Severity: important


   * What led up to the situation?

     Trying to install via "aptitude install jetty9"

   * What was the outcome of this action?

Setting up jetty9 (9.2.16-1) ...
Job for jetty9.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status jetty9.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript jetty9, action "start" failed.


systemctl:

jetty9.service - LSB: Start Jetty
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/jetty9; generated; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fr 2016-06-03 19:35:16 CEST; 51s ago
Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
Process: 22147 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/jetty9 start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Jun 03 19:35:11 w530-lx-jpl systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Start Jetty...
Jun 03 19:35:11 w530-lx-jpl jetty9[22147]: Starting Jetty 9 Servlet Engine: jetty9/var/run/jetty9.pid exists, but jetty was not running. Ignoring /var/run/jet
Jun 03 19:35:16 w530-lx-jpl jetty9[22147]:  failed!
Jun 03 19:35:16 w530-lx-jpl systemd[1]: jetty9.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
Jun 03 19:35:16 w530-lx-jpl systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Start Jetty.
Jun 03 19:35:16 w530-lx-jpl systemd[1]: jetty9.service: Unit entered failed state.
Jun 03 19:35:16 w530-lx-jpl systemd[1]: jetty9.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1 (SMP w/8 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages jetty9 depends on:
ii  adduser                                          3.114
ii  apache2-utils                                    2.4.20-2
ii  default-jre-headless [java7-runtime-headless]    2:1.8-57
ii  libjetty9-extra-java                             9.2.16-1
ii  libjetty9-java                                   9.2.16-1
ii  openjdk-8-jre-headless [java7-runtime-headless]  8u91-b14-2

Versions of packages jetty9 recommends:
ii  authbind  2.1.1+nmu1

jetty9 suggests no packages.

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