Bug#1129184: jetty12: package refers to unexisting /var/lib/jetty

[Emmanuel Bourg]

Le 27/02/2026 à 09:12, Fab Stz a écrit :

> I just noticed that in the systemd logs of jetty12 there is:
> 
> /usr/libexec/jetty12/jetty-start.sh: 15: cd: can't cd to /var/lib/jetty
> 
> 
> Log snippet:
> 
> Feb 27 07:57:35 ci-058-e8bb2f4d systemd[1]: Started jetty12.service - Jetty 12 Web Application Server.
> Feb 27 07:57:35 ci-058-e8bb2f4d jetty12[3822]: /usr/libexec/jetty12/jetty-start.sh: 15: cd: can't cd to /var/lib/jetty
> Feb 27 07:57:37 ci-058-e8bb2f4d jetty12[3825]: WARN  : Use of both ${jetty.base}/start.d and ${jetty.base}/start.ini is deprecated
> 
> 
> I guess the dir should be /var/lib/jetty12 instead of /var/lib/jetty. Maybe it has something to do with this line?
> 
> https://sources.debian.org/src/jetty12/12.0.32-2/debian/sysusers/jetty12.conf?hl=7#L7

I'm not sure to understand what is causing this error. The jetty user 
has the /var/lib/jetty directory as home, which is normal since the user 
is shared between different versions of Jetty. But the jetty-start.sh 
script has a cd command to the $JETTY_BASE directory, which is 
initialized to /var/lib/jetty12 in the service file, and may be 
overridden in /etc/default/jetty12 (I checked on my system, the variable 
is not overridden and I still get the error in the log).

What mechanism sets JETTY_BASE to /var/lib/jetty instead of 
/var/lib/jetty12?


> BTW, I noticed that /usr/libexec/jetty12/jetty-start.sh references TOMCAT & CATALINA... Is this normal?

This is fixed in jetty12/12.0.33-1


Emmanuel Bourg