Bug 755584 – www-servers/tomcat-9.0.38: wrong classpath prevents startup

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Robert G. Siebeck 2020-11-19 16:57:30 UTC]

When starting up Tomcat, it fails with the following exception:

[...]
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: 'java.lang.String javax.servlet.ServletContext.getVirtualServerName()'
	at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.startInternal(Unknown Source)
	... 48 more
[...]

When looking at the classpath, I found this:

$ java-config --with-dependencies  --classpath tomcat-9 
//usr/share/tomcat-9/bin/bootstrap.jar://usr/share/tomcat-9/bin/tomcat-juli.jar://usr/share/tomcat-9/lib/annotations-api.jar://usr/share/tomcat-9/lib/catalina-ant.jar://usr/share/tomcat-9/lib/catalina-ha.jar://usr/share/tomcat-9/lib/catalina-ssi.jar://usr/share/tomcat-9/lib/catalina-storeconfig.jar://usr/share/tomcat-9/lib/catalina-tribes.jar://usr/share/tomcat-9/lib/catalina.jar://usr/share/tomcat-9/lib/jasper-el.jar://usr/share/tomcat-9/lib/jasper.jar://usr/share/tomcat-9/lib/jaspic-api.jar://usr/share/tomcat-9/lib/tomcat-api.jar://usr/share/tomcat-9/lib/tomcat-coyote.jar://usr/share/tomcat-9/lib/tomcat-i18n-cs.jar://usr/share/tomcat-9/lib/tomcat-i18n-de.jar://usr/share/tomcat-9/lib/tomcat-i18n-es.jar://usr/share/tomcat-9/lib/tomcat-i18n-fr.jar://usr/share/tomcat-9/lib/tomcat-i18n-ja.jar://usr/share/tomcat-9/lib/tomcat-i18n-ko.jar://usr/share/tomcat-9/lib/tomcat-i18n-pt-BR.jar://usr/share/tomcat-9/lib/tomcat-i18n-ru.jar://usr/share/tomcat-9/lib/tomcat-i18n-zh-CN.jar://usr/share/tomcat-9/lib/tomcat-jni.jar://usr/share/tomcat-9/lib/tomcat-util-scan.jar://usr/share/tomcat-9/lib/tomcat-util.jar://usr/share/tomcat-9/lib/tomcat-websocket.jar://usr/share/tomcat-9/lib/websocket-api.jar://usr/share/eclipse-ecj-4.13/lib/ecj.jar://usr/share/glassfish-xmlrpc-api/lib/glassfish-xmlrpc-api.jar://usr/share/tomcat-servlet-api-4.0/lib/el-api.jar://usr/share/tomcat-servlet-api-4.0/lib/jsp-api.jar://usr/share/tomcat-servlet-api-4.0/lib/servlet-api.jar://usr/share/wsdl4j/lib/qname.jar://usr/share/wsdl4j/lib/wsdl4j.jar://usr/share/tomcat-servlet-api-3.0/lib/el-api.jar://usr/share/tomcat-servlet-api-3.0/lib/jsp-api.jar://usr/share/tomcat-servlet-api-3.0/lib/servlet-api.jar://usr/share/ant-core/lib/ant.jar://usr/share/ant-core/lib/ant-bootstrap.jar://usr/share/ant-core/lib/ant-launcher.jar

Please notice that it's got both servlet-api-3.0 and servlet-api-4.0 in the classpath. servlet-api-3.0 is too old and lacks the method the exception from the beginning complained about.

After removing glassish-xmlrpc-api from /usr/share/tomcat-9/package.env's DEPEND, Tomcat starts fine.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Larry the Git Cow 2020-11-23 21:36:29 UTC]

The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=f522301ac5f180ffb2a30b4c4009bc246f8f207c

commit f522301ac5f180ffb2a30b4c4009bc246f8f207c
Author:     Robert Siebeck <[e-mail]>
AuthorDate: 2020-11-19 17:19:16 +0000
Commit:     Patrice Clement <[e-mail]>
CommitDate: 2020-11-23 21:32:33 +0000

    www-servers/tomcat: move glassfish-xmlrpc-api from DEPEND into BUILD_DEPEND in package.env.
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/755584
    Signed-off-by: Robert Siebeck <[e-mail]>
    Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/18325
    Signed-off-by: Patrice Clement <[e-mail]>

 www-servers/tomcat/tomcat-9.0.38-r1.ebuild | 187 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 187 insertions(+)