[Bug 1051743] New: tomcat-jsvc service fails to start server

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Bug ID: 1051743
           Summary: tomcat-jsvc service fails to start server
           Product: Fedora
           Version: 19
         Component: tomcat
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
        QA Contact: [e-mail]
                CC: [e-mail], [e-mail],
                    [e-mail],
                    [e-mail]

Description of problem:

Systemd does not successfully start tomcat daemon after upgrade to fc19

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

tomcat-jsvc-7.0.47-1.fc19.noarch

How reproducible:

Always fails to work since upgrade.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  systemctl start tomcat-jsvc.service
2.
3.

Actual results:

No response.  No Tomcat running.  The following line appears to catalina.out:

Service exit with a return value of 143

Expected results:

Tomcat server daemon running

Additional info:

While this isn't working using system, if I type:

/usr/sbin/tomcat-jsvc-sysd start

the tomcat daemon starts and works fine.

[Bug 1051743] tomcat-jsvc service fails to start server

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--- Comment #1 from [e-mail] ---
Upgraded to FC20, problem persists.  It actually got worse as I had to modify
/usr/sbin/tomcat-jsvc to explicitly set TOMCAT_USER and CATALINA_BASE as
otherwise they are empty and cause even my workaround to fail.

[Bug 1051743] tomcat-jsvc service fails to start server

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--- Comment #2 from Ivan Afonichev  ---
Yes on FC20 jsvc support was degradated. But it is strange that it is not works
on FC19.

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--- Comment #3 from [e-mail] ---
One more thing to note after the upgrade to FC20 is that tomcat does start
after a long wait on the initial system boot now BUT if I try to stop it using
the systemctl stop tomcat-jsvc.service, it fails and I cannot restart it using
this method and even if I kill the processes and try to start using systemctl,
it fails.

I also notice that the /var/run/tomcat.pid file is empty.  I thought it usually
should contain the pid of the tomcat process.  I mention it in case it is
helpful.

---

Your comment came in as I was typing.  Why was it degradated?  Any good option
for me since I use this?

Thanks!

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--- Comment #4 from Ivan Afonichev  ---
We will work to restore this feature, as it is appeared to be used by you and
may be others.

As an option you can consider using some frontend server on your privileged
ports, like nginx or httpd, and use tomcat as backend server behind of them. Or
use iptables to nat your privileged ports to tomcat's unprivileged. Or use
xinetd to redirect traffic of your privileged ports to tomcat's unprivileged.

We can create tomcat-nginx and/or tomcat-httpd subpackages with tomcat frontend
vhosts for nginx and/or httpd if you think it would be helpful.

I think using frontend server is generally the best solution, much better then
using jsvc. But nevertheless I'll try to restore it in F19 and F20 too.

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--- Comment #5 from [e-mail] ---
If you can restore the functionality that would be great.  Thanks!

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--- Comment #7 from Fedora Update System  ---
tomcat-7.0.59-1.fc21 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 21.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/tomcat-7.0.59-1.fc21

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--- Comment #8 from Fedora Update System  ---
Package tomcat-7.0.59-1.fc21:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 21 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing tomcat-7.0.59-1.fc21'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-2109/tomcat-7.0.59-1.fc2...
then log in and leave karma (feedback).