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

[Michael Koch]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 09:03:17PM +0200, Thomas Huriaux wrote:
> Michael Koch <konqueror at gmx.de> (24/04/2008):
> > Before applying any patch I would like to be able to reproduce the
> > issue. What did you actually did in which order and which java packages
> > are installed? Did you installed tomcat5.5 from scratch or did you
> > updated it?
> 
> It was an update, but I just tried on another computer with a clean
> install, I have the same problem.
> 
> Can you check the content of MANIFEST.MF in
> /usr/share/tomcat5.5/bin/bootstrap.jar, especially:
>   Class-Path: jmx.jar commons-daemon.jar commons-logging-api-1.1.1.jar t
>    omcat-juli.jar
> 
> I don't have any commons-logging-api-1.1.1.jar in
> /usr/share/tomcat5.5/bin/, but a commons-logging-api.jar which is a
> symlink to /usr/share/java/commons-logging-api.jar.
> 
> I guess one of the reason you can't reproduce the bug might be because
> you have a /usr/share/tomcat5.5/bin/commons-logging-api-1.1.1.jar which
> does not belong to any package.
> 
> Note that MANIFEST.MF of tomcat 5.5.25 does contain the right
> Class-Path.
> 
> Hope that helps.

That helps a lot. I was able to reproduce the bug and commited a fix to
our SVN. I want to do some other fixes and then upload new version of
tomcat5.5.


Cheers,
Michael