Bug#922863: tomcat8: post-installation script subprocess failed during upgrade

[Vincent Lefevre]

Package: tomcat8
Version: 8.5.38-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

During upgrade:

[...]
Setting up tomcat8 (8.5.38-1) ...
[ ok ] Stopping Tomcat servlet engine: tomcat8.
[FAIL] Starting Tomcat servlet engine: tomcat8 failed!
invoke-rc.d: initscript tomcat8, action "restart" failed.
dpkg: error processing package tomcat8 (--configure):
 installed tomcat8 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
[...]
Errors were encountered while processing:
 tomcat8
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Setting up tomcat8 (8.5.38-1) ...
[FAIL] Starting Tomcat servlet engine: tomcat8 failed!
invoke-rc.d: initscript tomcat8, action "restart" failed.
dpkg: error processing package tomcat8 (--configure):
 installed tomcat8 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 tomcat8

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=POSIX (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages tomcat8 depends on:
ii  adduser                3.118
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.70
ii  lsb-base               10.2018112800
ii  tomcat8-common         8.5.38-1
ii  ucf                    3.0038+nmu1

Versions of packages tomcat8 recommends:
ii  authbind       2.1.2
ii  libtcnative-1  1.2.21-1

Versions of packages tomcat8 suggests:
pn  tomcat8-admin     <none>
pn  tomcat8-docs      <none>
pn  tomcat8-examples  <none>
pn  tomcat8-user      <none>

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

-- debconf information:
  tomcat8/groupname: tomcat8
  tomcat8/username: tomcat8
  tomcat8/javaopts: -Djava.awt.headless=true -Xmx128m -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC