12.04 activemq package symlinks to jar files is broken.

[Allan Bailey]

activemq package version 5.5.0+dfsg-6ubuntu1 is dependent on symlinks to jar files in /usr/share/activemq/lib

Those symlinks are in /usr/share/java/ , and the links in there are to /usr/share/maven-repo/org/apache/activemq/

initially I discovered this because I recieved no output from starting activemq at all. Even with DEBUG level.

Manually fixing those symlinks it gets closer to starting, and does log. Still a mystery what is missing such that
it starts listening, then immedately shutsdown without error.

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Aditya V (kroq-gar78)]

There are two problems here:

1. The symlink isn't going to the right level.

$ readlink /usr/share/activemq/bin/run.jar
../../java/activemq-run.jar

It should be 3 levels above (3x '../'). In my opinion, it should have an absolute path anyway.

2. 'activemq-run.jar' isn't in any packages

$ apt-file search activemq-run.jar

No output. Where is this usually?

[Aditya V (kroq-gar78)]

eh, forget my comment about the wrong symlink levels ;)

However, 'activemq-run.jar' still isn't there anyway.

[Aditya V (kroq-gar78)]

Looks like this is Ubuntu-specific and is fixed by debian package version 5.5.0+dfsg-7. Launchpad bug 993249 is looking to sync the package and can fix this problem.

Proof that it's an Ubuntu-specific problem:

http://packages.debian.org/sid/all/libactivemq-java/filelist shows that the Debian package installs files in /usr/share/*
while http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/all/libactivemq-java/filelist shows that Ubuntu doesn't.