solr-tomcat5.5 installation fails: cat: /etc/tomcat5.5/policy.d/05solr.policy: No such file or directory

[jablko]

I just installed solr-tomcat5.5 from Hardy. Since it depends on tomcat5.5, tomcat5.5 was also installed. However the installation failed because Tomcat can't start:

[...]
Setting up tomcat5.5 (5.5.25-1ubuntu1) ...
 * Starting Tomcat servlet engine tomcat5.5
cat: /etc/tomcat5.5/policy.d/05solr.policy: No such file or directory
invoke-rc.d: initscript tomcat5.5, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing tomcat5.5 (--configure):
[...]

Investigating, I found /etc/tomcat5.5/policy.d/05solr.policy is a symlink to ../../solr/tomcat.policy (/etc/solr/tomcat.policy) and indeed, /etc/solr/tomcat.policy does not exist.

According to the filelist it should: http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/all/solr-tomcat5.5/filelist

However /etc/solr contains tomcat.policy.dpkg-new instead.

My guess is that once solr-tomcat5.5 is configured, tomcat.policy.dpkg-new will be renamed tomcat.policy, but it won't be configured until tomcat5.5 is installed, which fails because the init script fails because tomcat.policy.dpkg-new has not yet been renamed. Which is sort of a chicken and egg problem.

The following manual intervention made the problem go away:

% sudo cp tomcat.policy.dpkg-new tomcat.policy

Thanks for maintaining Solr in Ubuntu, Jack

[Rusty Burchfield (gicodewarrior)]

happens for me too

[Thierry Carrez (ttx)]

solr-tomcat5.5 should not use links but place files directly in /etc/tomcat5.5/policy.d and /etc/tomcat5.5/Catalina/localhost/

[Thierry Carrez (ttx)]

That said, tomcat5.5 shouldn't fail so badly if solr-tomcat5.5 is not configured yet. This will be fixed together with bug 274365, by a new tomcat 5.5 update.

[Thierry Carrez (ttx)]

tomcat5.5 (5.5.26-3ubuntu2) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Don't fail install if Tomcat cannot be started (LP: #274365, LP: #212536)

 -- Thierry Carrez <thierry.carrez@xxx> Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:03:01 +0200

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Uploaded. Sitting in the queue.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package tomcat5.5 - 5.5.26-3ubuntu2

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tomcat5.5 (5.5.26-3ubuntu2) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Don't fail install if Tomcat cannot be started (LP: #274365, LP: #212536)

 -- Thierry Carrez <email address hidden> Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:03:01 +0200