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

[spam2008 at meeque.de]

Package: tomcat5.5
Version: 5.5.26-1

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Just want to confirm this bug, since apperently I was not quick enough
to report it. In  the following some thoughts about it. But you probably
got it all sorted already. If so, just ignore this comment...


Suggested Bugfix:

I fixed the bug by adding an appropriate entry for
"commons-logging-api.jar" to the CLASSPATH of jsvc. Hence I changed line
122 of "/etc/init.d/tomcat5.5" to:

    JSVC_CLASSPATH="/usr/share/java/commons-daemon.jar:
                   $CATALINA_HOME/bin/bootstrap.jar:
                   $CATALINA_HOME/bin/commons-logging-api.jar"

(Linebreaks added for the sake of clarity. In the original file this is
all on one line, with no whitespace in between.)


Additional Information:

Even before I fixed the bug the init script would always print:
     * Starting Tomcat servlet engine tomcat5.5       [ ok ]
Apparently, it prints that right after the Tomcat daemon is forked with
jsvc. However, Tomcat always crashed at startup and never actually was
"up". Maybe, the init script should wait until Tomcat is in an "up"
state before exiting. It should issue an error message if Tomcat crashes
during startup. (I had to read the syslog to figure out what was wrong.)
Is there a way jsvc could be used to achieve that? How do other services
do it?

I noticed that there are even more JAR files in "$CATALINA_HOME/bin/".
However, Tomcat only seems to require those mentioned above for startup.
Don't know what the others are for.

Maybe "/etc/default/tomcat5.5" could be used to integrate those and
other jars, when needed. It could setup a CLASSPATH variable for Tomcat
startup that would be used be the init script.


-- Michael Riedel


--- System information. ---
Architecture: amd64
Kernel:       Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64

Debian Release: lenny/sid
  500 testing         www.debian-multimedia.org
  500 testing         security.debian.org
  500 testing         ftp.nz.debian.org

--- Package information. ---
Depends                                (Version) | Installed
================================================-+-=========================
java-gcj-compat-dev               (>= 1.0.30-5)  |
 OR java2-runtime                                |
libtomcat5.5-java                  (>= 5.5.26-1) | 5.5.26-1
adduser                                (>= 3.34) | 3.107
libecj-java                                      | 3.3.0+0728-8
jsvc                    (>= 1.0.2~svn20061127-6) | 1.0.2~svn20061127-6