After upgrading to Tomcat 8.0.24 or 8.0.26 I get a NoClassDefFoundError and the server doesn't start. org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.startElement Begin event threw error java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/servlet/http/HttpServletRequest at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:760) at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142) at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:467) at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:73) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:368) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:362) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:361) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:331) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357) at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:2701) at java.lang.Class.privateGetPublicMethods(Class.java:2902) at java.lang.Class.getMethods(Class.java:1615) at org.apache.tomcat.util.IntrospectionUtils.findMethods(Unknown Source) at org.apache.tomcat.util.IntrospectionUtils.setProperty(Unknown Source) at org.apache.tomcat.util.IntrospectionUtils.setProperty(Unknown Source) at org.apache.catalina.startup.SetAllPropertiesRule.begin(Unknown Source) at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.startElement(Unknown Source) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.startElement(AbstractSAXParser.java:509) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractXMLDocumentParser.emptyElement(AbstractXMLDocumentParser.java:182) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1343) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:2786) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:606) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:510) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:848) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:777) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:141) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1213) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:649) at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Unknown Source) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.load(Unknown Source) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Unknown Source) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:331) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357) ... 41 more Downgrading to 8.0.23-r2 solves the issue.
tomcat-7.0.64 fails the same way. Adding back: --- tomcat-7.0.64.ebuild.gentoo 2015-09-09 10:42:30.380379194 +0200 +++ tomcat-7.0.64.ebuild 2015-09-09 10:41:46.755035432 +0200 @@ -91,6 +91,10 @@ java-pkg_jarinto "${dest}"/lib java-pkg_dojar output/build/lib/*.jar + # so we don't have to call java-config with --with-dependencies, which might + # bring in more jars then actually desired. + java-pkg_addcp "$(java-pkg_getjars eclipse-ecj-${ECJ_SLOT},tomcat-servlet-api-${SAPI_SLOT})" + dodoc RELEASE-NOTES RUNNING.txt use doc && java-pkg_dojavadoc output/dist/webapps/docs/api use source && java-pkg_dosrc java/* makes tomcat work again for me.
This is most likely because you need to update your init.d script from the one at /usr/share/tomcat-8/gentoo/tomcat.init. In retrospect, an einfo or news item might have been appropriate here. It was discussed on IRC about whether these could be updated automatically in conjunction with config-protect but we couldn't think of a way to make it work. Please try updating your script and report back.
(In reply to James Le Cuirot from comment #2) > This is most likely because you need to update your init.d script from the > one at /usr/share/tomcat-8/gentoo/tomcat.init. In retrospect, an einfo or > news item might have been appropriate here. It was discussed on IRC about > whether these could be updated automatically in conjunction with > config-protect but we couldn't think of a way to make it work. Please try > updating your script and report back. Is there any proper documented upgrade path? Just updating/copying over the init script: # cp /usr/share/tomcat-8/gentoo/tomcat.init /etc/init.d/tomcat-8-production doesn't seem to be sufficient, it still crashes on startup with the aforementioned error.
(In reply to Timo Gurr from comment #3) > Is there any proper documented upgrade path? Just updating/copying over the > init script: > > # cp /usr/share/tomcat-8/gentoo/tomcat.init /etc/init.d/tomcat-8-production > > doesn't seem to be sufficient, it still crashes on startup with the > aforementioned error. Sorry, I forgot to mention that /usr/share/tomcat-8/conf/catalina.properties also needs to replace /var/lib/tomcat-8-production/conf/catalina.properties, accounting for any other changes you may have made, of course. We have handled this badly and for that, I do apologise.
(In reply to James Le Cuirot from comment #4) > (In reply to Timo Gurr from comment #3) > > Is there any proper documented upgrade path? Just updating/copying over the > > init script: > > > > # cp /usr/share/tomcat-8/gentoo/tomcat.init /etc/init.d/tomcat-8-production > > > > doesn't seem to be sufficient, it still crashes on startup with the > > aforementioned error. > > Sorry, I forgot to mention that /usr/share/tomcat-8/conf/catalina.properties > also needs to replace /var/lib/tomcat-8-production/conf/catalina.properties, > accounting for any other changes you may have made, of course. > > We have handled this badly and for that, I do apologise. That was what I missed. It works again now, thank you very much! For completeness: A commented section about #TOMCAT_EXTRA_CLASSPATH="" was also added to /usr/share/tomcat-8/gentoo/tomcat.conf (which is the base for the instances conf.d files).
Works for me too! Thanks!
For what it's worth, I've thought about how we may be able to push these updates through dispatch-conf but I don't have the time at present.
