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[Thierry Carrez <thierry.carrez@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hm, that will not be sufficient. Once jsvc is fixed, Tomcat finally needs the following defined in java.security to start:
  policy.expandProperties=true
  policy.allowSystemProperty=true
And java.security is also a conffile, so this is also available only after configuration. Not sure we have a workaround for that one.

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

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]