tomcat6 initscript "status" action always return 0

[Thierry Carrez]

Binary package hint: tomcat6

The tomcat6 initscript "status" action always return 0 (even if tomcat 6 is not started).
That results in unwanted behavior, especially in all the tomcat6 webapps postinsts that test if tomcat6 is started (and may fail trying to restart it).

[Mathias Gug (mathiaz)]

That leads to uninstallable packages:

$ sudo apt-get install tomcat6 tomcat6-examples tomcat6-admin tomcat6-user
[...]
Setting up default-jre-headless (1.6-30ubuntu3) ...
Setting up rhino (1.7R1-1ubuntu3) ...

Setting up libaccess-bridge-java (1.24.0-0ubuntu2) ...
Setting up openjdk-6-jre-lib (6b12-0ubuntu4) ...
Setting up libcommons-daemon-java (1.0.2~svn20061127-9ubuntu2) ...

Setting up jsvc (1.0.2~svn20061127-9ubuntu2) ...
Setting up libcommons-collections-java (2.1.1-8ubuntu1) ...

Setting up libcommons-pool-java (1.3-1ubuntu2) ...

Setting up libcommons-dbcp-java (1.2.2-1ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libservlet2.5-java (6.0.18-0ubuntu3) ...
Setting up libtomcat6-java (6.0.18-0ubuntu3) ...
Setting up tomcat6-common (6.0.18-0ubuntu3) ...
Setting up tomcat6 (6.0.18-0ubuntu3) ...
Adding system user `tomcat6' (UID 107) ...
Adding new group `tomcat6' (GID 118) ...
Adding new user `tomcat6' (UID 107) with group `tomcat6' ...
Not creating home directory `/usr/share/tomcat6'.
 * Starting Tomcat servlet engine tomcat6
   ...fail!
invoke-rc.d: initscript tomcat6, action "start" failed.

Setting up tomcat6-admin (6.0.18-0ubuntu3) ...
 * Starting Tomcat servlet engine tomcat6
   ...fail!
invoke-rc.d: initscript tomcat6, action "force-reload" failed.
dpkg: error processing tomcat6-admin (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up tomcat6-examples (6.0.18-0ubuntu3) ...
 * Starting Tomcat servlet engine tomcat6
   ...fail!
invoke-rc.d: initscript tomcat6, action "force-reload" failed.
dpkg: error processing tomcat6-examples (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up tomcat6-user (6.0.18-0ubuntu3) ...
Setting up openjdk-6-jre-headless (6b12-0ubuntu4) ...
[...]

[Mathias Gug (mathiaz)]

The proposed fixe is:

diff -u tomcat6-6.0.18/debian/tomcat6.init tomcat6-6.0.18/debian/tomcat6.init
--- tomcat6-6.0.18/debian/tomcat6.init
+++ tomcat6-6.0.18/debian/tomcat6.init
@@ -184,8 +184,10 @@

   if [ -f "$CATALINA_PID" ]; then
       log_success_msg "$DESC is not running, but pid file exists."
+ exit 1
   else
       log_success_msg "$DESC is not running."
+ exit 3
   fi
  else
   log_success_msg "$DESC is running with pid `cat $CATALINA_PID`"

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Part of the diff in bug 287126, acked.

[Mathias Gug (mathiaz)]

uploaded

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package tomcat6 - 6.0.18-0ubuntu3

---------------
tomcat6 (6.0.18-0ubuntu3) intrepid; urgency=low

  * debian/tomcat6.postinst:
    - Make /var/lib/tomcat6/temp writeable by the tomcat6 user (LP: #287126)
    - Make /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps writeable by tomcat6 group (LP: #287447)
  * debian/tomcat6.init: make status return nonzero if tomcat6 is not running
    (fixes LP: #288218)

 -- Thierry Carrez <email address hidden> Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:19:15 +0200