Tomcat Install problem on hardy server runnning Xubuntu

[Stephen Taylor]

I am running Hardy server, with xfc4 wm. I installed java-6-sun, apache2, and tomcat5.5 using synaptic.
Used firestarted to allow traffic on 8180; everything worked fine with java-6-sun...06, then I upgraded to 07 and everything fell apart.

The installed system runs apache fine, but trying to get to tomcat (localhost:8180) gives:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/catalina/startup/Bootstrap
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap
 at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
 at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
 at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
 at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:276)
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:251)
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:319)

in catalina.log.

CATALINA_HOME and JAVA_HOME look good and are exported in both my bashrc and profile:

export CATALINA_HOME="/usr/share/tomcat5.5"
export JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun"

I noticed that the install instructions for Tomcast on the home site ask you to extract jsvc from the tomcat/bin directory. However, jsvc seems to be installed already through synaptic but the tar.gz is not located in the tomcat bin directory. I also noticed that the demon startup file looks good... uses "Bootstrap" and not BootstrapService as in 4.1.

I tried shutting down and restarting tomcat, installing/reinstalling apache and tomcat, following the directions in several online bug reports.

I'm out of ideas... anyone who can help?

[Stephen Taylor (stephen-taylor-comcast)]

This got fixed.

I removed apache from the system, updated to the latest version of both tomcat and java. Then the problem dissapeared.

[Thierry Carrez (ttx)]

Closing the bug, then. Thanks !