Bug#298314: /etc/init.d/tomcat4 start fails; log says JAVA_HOME is not defined correctly

[Barry Hawkins]

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Herman Robak wrote:
[...]
|  I tried solving it The Wrong Way by removing the JDK_DIRs I did not
| intend to use for Tomcat:
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| JDK_DIRS="/usr/lib/kaffe"
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| Yet, the last lines of the newest catalina<date>.log are:
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| The JAVA_HOME environment variable is not defined correctly
| This environment variable is needed to run this program
| NB: JAVA_HOME should point to a JDK not a JRE
|
|
|  Is somebody/something pulling my leg here?!
[...]
Herman,
~    Wow, this one is a pain, huh?  Just to test out, I successfully
started tomcat4 with a Sun 1.4.2 JDK, an IBM 1.3.1 JDK, an IBM 1.4.2
JDK, and kaffe on an x86 sarge install without issue.  I was able to get
to the default page and the admin app.
~    Try installing a Sun or Blackdown JDK and tell me if your tomcat4
installation will work with that.  If we can get a "known good" setup,
maybe we can figure out your issue.  If that does not work, I would
recommend purging the packages and starting fresh.  I am fairly certain
that it is not a bug with the package(s).
~    Another thing you might check on, although it should not affect
tomcat, is what your alternatives are set to for java-related aliases.
If you have free-java-sdk installed, you can run
/usr/lib/fjsdk/java-alt-setup as root to view these; just don't make any
selections unless you wish to change something.

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Barry Hawkins
All Things Computed
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