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

[Dominik George]

Control: tag -1 + moreinfo unreproducible
Control: severity -1 important

Hi,

> 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

I cannot reproduce this under systemd.

Can you please provide more details from your system that show why this
might fail? You can edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/tomcat8.postinst and add a
set -x near the set -e at the top, then dpkg-reconfigure tomcat8, for
example.

-nik
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