Bug#477363: tomcat5.5 5.5.26-1 can not start

[Moshe Gorohovsky]

Package: tomcat5.5
Version: 5.5.26-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Tomcat 5.5.26-1 can not start.
Running /etc/init.d/tomcat5.5 start yelds following
lines in /var/log/syslog:
  jsvc.exec[3606]: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
  org/apache/commons/logging/LogFactory
  ...
  jsvc.exec[3606]: Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
  org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages tomcat5.5 depends on:
ii  adduser              3.107               add and remove users and groups
ii  java-gcj-compat [jav 1.0.78-1            Java runtime environment using GIJ
ii  jsvc                 1.0.2~svn20061127-6 wrapper to launch Java application
ii  libecj-java          3.3.0+0728-9        Eclipse Java compiler (library)
ii  libtomcat5.5-java    5.5.26-1            Java Servlet engine -- core librar
ii  sun-java6-jre [java2 6-06-1              Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (

tomcat5.5 recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information
-------------- next part --------------
--- tomcat5.5-orig-20080422	2008-04-02 08:49:37.000000000 +0300
+++ tomcat5.5	2008-04-22 18:28:52.000000000 +0300
@@ -120,6 +120,8 @@
 CATALINA_PID="/var/run/$NAME.pid"
 BOOTSTRAP_CLASS=org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap
 JSVC_CLASSPATH="/usr/share/java/commons-daemon.jar:$CATALINA_HOME/bin/bootstrap.jar"
+JSVC_CLASSPATH="/usr/share/java/commons-logging.jar:$JSVC_CLASSPATH"
 
 # Look for Java Secure Sockets Extension (JSSE) JARs
 if [ -z "${JSSE_HOME}" -a -r "${JAVA_HOME}/jre/lib/jsse.jar" ]; then