Bug#890230: jetty9: installation fails: Starting Jetty 9 Servlet Engine: jetty9 failed!

[Ricardo Mones]

Package: jetty9
Version: 9.2.21-1
Severity: important

Hi maintainers,

On stable distribution the installation of jetty9 fails in a very
similar manner as reported in #884771 although this is a previous
version, so not sure it's caused by the same problem. FWIW the apt-get
and 'journalctl -xe' relevant pieces of output follow:

Configurando jetty9 (9.2.21-1) ...
Añadiendo el usuario del sistema `jetty' (UID 124) ...
Añadiendo un nuevo grupo `jetty' (GID 132) ...
Añadiendo un nuevo usuario `jetty' (UID 124) con grupo `jetty' ...
No se crea el directorio personal `/usr/share/jetty9'.
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.
● jetty9.service - LSB: Start Jetty
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/jetty9; generated; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2018-02-12 10:12:01 CET; 10ms ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 3725 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/jetty9 start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

feb 12 10:11:56 sistemaq systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Start Jetty...
feb 12 10:12:01 sistemaq jetty9[3725]: Starting Jetty 9 Servlet Engine: jetty9 failed!
feb 12 10:12:01 sistemaq systemd[1]: jetty9.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
feb 12 10:12:01 sistemaq systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Start Jetty.
feb 12 10:12:01 sistemaq systemd[1]: jetty9.service: Unit entered failed state.
feb 12 10:12:01 sistemaq systemd[1]: jetty9.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
dpkg: error al procesar el paquete jetty9 (--configure):
 el subproceso instalado el script post-installation devolvió el código de salida de error 1
Procesando disparadores para systemd (232-25+deb9u1) ...
Se encontraron errores al procesar:
 jetty9
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


feb 12 10:11:56 sistemaq systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Start Jetty...
-- Subject: Unit jetty9.service has begun start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
-- 
-- Unit jetty9.service has begun starting up.
feb 12 10:12:01 sistemaq jetty9[3725]: Starting Jetty 9 Servlet Engine: jetty9 failed!
feb 12 10:12:01 sistemaq systemd[1]: jetty9.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
feb 12 10:12:01 sistemaq systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Start Jetty.
-- Subject: Unit jetty9.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
-- 
-- Unit jetty9.service has failed.
-- 
-- The result is failed.
feb 12 10:12:01 sistemaq systemd[1]: jetty9.service: Unit entered failed state.
feb 12 10:12:01 sistemaq systemd[1]: jetty9.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.


thanks in advance,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.3
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)