incompatible to tomcat8?

[Hadmut Danisch]

Hi,

I'm just trying to get pki-server and pki-ca running under 16.04. Seems to run into a circular problem:

pki-tomcatd.service can't be run:

#systemctl status pki-tomcatd.service
● pki-tomcatd.service - LSB: Start pki-tomcatd at boot time
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/pki-tomcatd; bad; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2018-01-17 14:35:41 UTC; 55min ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 7862 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/pki-tomcatd start (code=exited, status=5)

Jan 17 14:35:41 catestub systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Start pki-tomcatd at boot time...
Jan 17 14:35:41 catestub pki-tomcatd[7862]: ERROR: No 'tomcat' instances installed!
Jan 17 14:35:41 catestub systemd[1]: pki-tomcatd.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=5
Jan 17 14:35:41 catestub systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Start pki-tomcatd at boot time.
Jan 17 14:35:41 catestub systemd[1]: pki-tomcatd.service: Unit entered failed state.
Jan 17 14:35:41 catestub systemd[1]: pki-tomcatd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

but pkispawn, which should setup instances, as it man page claims, fails at the end of the process, and it says

[ ok ] Starting pki-tomcatd (via systemctl): pki-tomcatd.service.
pkispawn : ERROR ....... server failed to restart

From /var/log/pki/pki-ca-spawn.20180117154016.log

2018-01-17 15:41:11 pkispawn : INFO ....... executing '/etc/init.d/pki-tomcatd start pki-tomcat'
2018-01-17 15:41:30 pkispawn : DEBUG ........... No connection - server may still be down
2018-01-17 15:41:30 pkispawn : DEBUG ........... No connection - exception thrown: ('Connection aborted.', error(104, 'Connection reset by peer'))
2018-01-17 15:41:31 pkispawn : DEBUG ........... No connection - server may still be down
2018-01-17 15:41:31 pkispawn : DEBUG ........... No connection - exception thrown: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='catestub.buero.danisch.de', port=8443): Max retries exceeded with url: /ca/admin/ca/getStatus (Caused by NewConnectionError('<requests.packages.urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x7ff4bd858b50>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] Connection refused',))
2018-01-17 15:41:32 pkispawn : DEBUG ........... No connection - server may still be down

I don't see what's actually wrong since I have no idea how this was intended to work or be setup. The README is just useless.

It looks a little bit as if it had been made for 14.04 or debian from 2014, and never been touched or checked since.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

correct, that's why libtomcatjss-java and pki-server depend on tomcat7