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[Bug 288616] Re: Tomcat 6 fails to start during install

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From: Matthias Klose <doko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:58:37 -0000
Reply-to: Bug 288616 <288616@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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** Also affects: openjdk-6 (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Tomcat 6 fails to start during install
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/288616
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Status in “java-common” source package in Ubuntu: New
Status in “openjdk-6” source package in Ubuntu: New
Status in “tomcat6” source package in Ubuntu: New

Bug description:
Binary package hint: tomcat6

In some cases  Tomcat 6 fails to successfully start *during install*. This doesn't prevent the installation from succeeding and you can still run "sudo service tomcat6 start" to start it once it is installed.

If a JRE is not completely configured by the time Tomcat is started, Tomcat will fail to start. This can happen in some installation scenarios as Tomcat 6 doesn't formally "pre-depend" on a JRE.

For example, on a minimal system, the packages seem to be configured in that order (some lines removed for clarity):
$ sudo apt-get install tomcat6 tomcat6-examples tomcat6-admin tomcat6-user
Setting up default-jre-headless (1.6-30ubuntu3) ...
Setting up openjdk-6-jre-lib (6b12-0ubuntu4) ...
Setting up tomcat6 (6.0.18-0ubuntu3) ...
 * Starting Tomcat servlet engine tomcat6  ...fail!
Setting up openjdk-6-jre-headless (6b12-0ubuntu4) ...

However if you run:
$ sudo apt-get install tomcat6
Setting up openjdk-6-jre-lib (6b12-0ubuntu4) ...
Setting up default-jre-headless (1.6-30ubuntu3) ...
Setting up openjdk-6-jre-headless (6b12-0ubuntu4) ...
Setting up tomcat6 (6.0.18-0ubuntu3) ...
 * Starting Tomcat servlet engine tomcat6  [OK]