Bug#853173: tomcat8: Failed tomcat8 upgrade with exit status 128

[Dave Sherohman]

Subject: tomcat8: Failed tomcat8 upgrade with exit status 128
Package: tomcat8
Version: 8.0.14-1+deb8u6
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

    * What led up to the situation?

Attempted to upgrade tomcat8 from 8.0.14-1+deb8u5 to 8.0.14-1+deb8u6


    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
      ineffective)?

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade resulted in the output:

--- cut here ---
Setting up tomcat8 (8.0.14-1+deb8u6) ...
dpkg: error processing package tomcat8 (--configure):
  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit 
status 128
Errors were encountered while processing:
  tomcat8
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
--- cut here ---

`apt-get remove tomcat8 ; apt-get clean ; apt-get install tomcat8` and 
multiple
invocations of `apt-get -f install` have provided the same results.

I've tracked the source of the error code 128 as far as line 92 of
/usr/share/debconf/frontend, indicating that the 128 is generated within
$confmodule, but I'm not familiar enough with the internals of Debian 
package
management to trace it any further than that at this time.


    * What was the outcome of this action?

Incomplete package upgrade.  Error messages as given above.

As you can see below, the tomcat8-admin, tomcat8-common, and libtomcat8-java
packages all upgraded successfully to 8.0.14-1+deb8u6.  It is only the 
'bare'
tomcat8 package with the startup scripts which failed.


    * What outcome did you expect instead?

Successful upgrade of the package.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.7
   APT prefers stable-updates
   APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/32 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages tomcat8 depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113+nmu3
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.56
ii  tomcat8-common         8.0.14-1+deb8u6
ii  ucf                    3.0030

Versions of packages tomcat8 recommends:
ii  authbind  2.1.1

Versions of packages tomcat8 suggests:
pn  libtcnative-1     <none>
ii  tomcat8-admin     8.0.14-1+deb8u6
pn  tomcat8-docs      <none>
pn  tomcat8-examples  <none>
pn  tomcat8-user      <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/tomcat8/catalina.properties [Errno 13] Permission denied: 
u'/etc/tomcat8/catalina.properties'
/etc/tomcat8/context.xml [Errno 13] Permission denied: 
u'/etc/tomcat8/context.xml'
/etc/tomcat8/logging.properties [Errno 13] Permission denied: 
u'/etc/tomcat8/logging.properties'
/etc/tomcat8/policy.d/01system.policy [Errno 13] Permission denied: 
u'/etc/tomcat8/policy.d/01system.policy'
/etc/tomcat8/policy.d/02debian.policy [Errno 13] Permission denied: 
u'/etc/tomcat8/policy.d/02debian.policy'
/etc/tomcat8/policy.d/03catalina.policy [Errno 13] Permission denied: 
u'/etc/tomcat8/policy.d/03catalina.policy'
/etc/tomcat8/policy.d/04webapps.policy [Errno 13] Permission denied: 
u'/etc/tomcat8/policy.d/04webapps.policy'
/etc/tomcat8/policy.d/50local.policy [Errno 13] Permission denied: 
u'/etc/tomcat8/policy.d/50local.policy'
/etc/tomcat8/server.xml [Errno 13] Permission denied: 
u'/etc/tomcat8/server.xml'
/etc/tomcat8/tomcat-users.xml [Errno 13] Permission denied: 
u'/etc/tomcat8/tomcat-users.xml'
/etc/tomcat8/web.xml [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/tomcat8/web.xml'

-- debconf information:
   tomcat8/groupname: tomcat8
   tomcat8/javaopts: 
-Dconfiguration.xml=/var/lib/tomcat8/conf/pure/lund-configuration.xml 
-Djava.awt.headless=true -Xms16G -Xmx16G -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC 
-XX:+UseNUMA -XX:+UseCompressedOops -Ddb.user=lucris 
-Ddb.password=mZ2ZZnOG48sZ2J3yToFS 
-Ddb.url=jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/pure 
-XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=512m 
-Ddk.atira.pure.commons.shared.util.GlobalRuntimeInfo.environment=test 
-Dmount.points.defaultUrl=https://ludicris.lub.lu.se 
-Dmount.points.fullUrl.admin=https://ludicris.lub.lu.se/admin 
-Dmount.points.fullUrl.ws=https://ludicris.lub.lu.se/ws 
-Dmount.points.fullUrl.portal=http://ludicris.lub.lu.se/portal 
-Dpure.mail.host=mail.lu.se 
-Dpure.mail.forced-recipient-of-all-email=noreply at atira.dk 
-Dsaml2authenticationmechanism.sp_entity_id=https://ludicris.lub.lu.se/Shibboleth 
-Dsaml2authenticationmechanism.certificate-pem=-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
   tomcat8/username: tomcat8