175189 2007-04-19 09:08 0000 tomcat-6.0.10-r2 fails to run when started with init scripts 2007-04-19 16:36:09 0000 1 1 1 Unclassified Gentoo Linux Ebuilds unspecified All Linux RESOLVED FIXED P2 major --- 1 adeel_n@yahoo.com wltjr@gentoo.org java@gentoo.org adeel_n@yahoo.com 2007-04-19 09:08:39 0000 Tomcat 6.0.10 does not start when using the init scripts. It reports a successful startup, but on issuing an '/etc/init.d/tomcat-6 status' it reports stopped. However, if changing the tomcat_user setting in /etc/conf.d/tomcat-6 to 'root' tomcat successfully starts. This implies a permissions problem. After some work, an error message is displayed: WARNING: Can't load server.xml from /var/lib/tomcat-6/conf/server.xml Apr 19, 2007 12:52:01 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start INFO: Server startup in 0 ms java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Unknown Source) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Unknown Source) Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.await(Unknown Source) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Unknown Source) ... 6 more Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge tomcat-6.0.10-r2 2. /etc/init.d/tomcat-6 start Checking the permissions of /etc/tomcat-6 it turns out that it's permissions are: drwxr-x--- 3 root root 4096 Apr 19 01:51 tomcat-6 while the permissions of /etc/tomcat-6/server.xml are: -rw-rw-r-- 1 tomcat tomcat 5164 Apr 19 01:27 server.xml a simple solution is to change the group ownership of the folder to 'tomcat' wltjr@gentoo.org 2007-04-19 16:36:09 0000 Fixed in -r3, although updating to that version is not likely to resolve problem. You can either remove tomcat entirely, removing specifically /etc/tomcat-6. Or a much simpler solution would be to simply chown -R tomcat:tomcat /etc/tomcat-6. That should resolve problem, and has been addressed in ebuild.