Tomcat 5.5 produces no logs when run with gcj

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Binary package hint: tomcat5.5

Hi, I installed tomcat 5.5 on a laptop Intel T2370/1G RAM and a laptop( Ubuntu 8.0.4 32bit) and Intel PIII 1.2G/512M RAM (XUbuntu 8.0.4 32bit) by Ubuntu package tool. It is 5.5.25.0, linux 2.6.24-19-generic, i386, JVM "1.5.0"(gcj 4.2.3). I also put the tomcat-admin package in with all the example and admin. Both CATALINA_BASE and CATALINA_HOME at /usr/share/tomcat5.5. Here are two problems I met with it

1. I cannot get any logs in the /usr/share/tomcat5.5/logs. I check the logging.properties in conf and it seems just fine. The logs directory is completely empty. It seems some configuration in the repackaging has some problems with logs. I then downloaded the binary code from tomcat website and it works just fine for the log with both the gcj and openjdk-6.

2. I have some problems to set up mysql JDBCRealm, a container security. After fixing the log, I found in the original scripting, /etc/init.d/tomcat55 can only recognize gcj and gcj has some problem to parse the mysql return. The original scipts has no option for openjdk. I then set openjdk as JAVA_HOME and use the downloaded tomcat, JDBCRealm works just fine.

I am new for Ubuntu and hopefully this information will be helpful for others who might have the similar problems.

[Thierry Carrez (ttx)]

1. Could you try running with TOMCAT5_SECURITY=no just to see if it brings your logs back ?
2. Support for OpenJDK is work in progress, see bug 212521 for details

I'll update description to center the problem on the gcj/logs problem.

[Thierry Carrez (ttx)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comment. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

[Tom Haddon (mthaddon)]

I can confirm I have the same issue, and changing /etc/default/tomcat5.5 to show TOMCAT5_SECURITY=no doesn't make the logs appear.

[Tom Haddon (mthaddon)]

I'm actually seeing some logging - it's going to /var/log/syslog instead of into /var/log/tomcat5.5, fwiw.

Sample ps output shows SYSLOG:

mthaddon@gpsdb-jasperserver:~$ ps auwxx | grep tomcat | grep -v grep
root 11332 0.0 0.0 2064 356 ? Ss 06:36 0:00 /usr/bin/jsvc -user tomcat55 -cp /usr/share/java/commons-daemon.jar:/usr/share/tomcat5.5/bin/bootstrap.jar -outfile SYSLOG -errfile SYSLOG -pidfile /var/run/tomcat5.5.pid -Djava.awt.headless=true -Xms128m -Xmx768m -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/usr/share/tomcat5.5/common/endorsed -Dcatalina.base=/var/lib/tomcat5.5 -Dcatalina.home=/usr/share/tomcat5.5 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/lib/tomcat5.5/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap
root 11333 0.0 0.0 2064 472 ? S 06:36 0:00 /usr/bin/jsvc -user tomcat55 -cp /usr/share/java/commons-daemon.jar:/usr/share/tomcat5.5/bin/bootstrap.jar -outfile SYSLOG -errfile SYSLOG -pidfile /var/run/tomcat5.5.pid -Djava.awt.headless=true -Xms128m -Xmx768m -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/usr/share/tomcat5.5/common/endorsed -Dcatalina.base=/var/lib/tomcat5.5 -Dcatalina.home=/usr/share/tomcat5.5 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/lib/tomcat5.5/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap
tomcat55 11334 0.6 7.9 434900 138828 ? Sl 06:36 0:26 /usr/bin/jsvc -user tomcat55 -cp /usr/share/java/commons-daemon.jar:/usr/share/tomcat5.5/bin/bootstrap.jar -outfile SYSLOG -errfile SYSLOG -pidfile /var/run/tomcat5.5.pid -Djava.awt.headless=true -Xms128m -Xmx768m -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/usr/share/tomcat5.5/common/endorsed -Dcatalina.base=/var/lib/tomcat5.5 -Dcatalina.home=/usr/share/tomcat5.5 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/lib/tomcat5.5/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap

[Thierry Carrez (ttx)]

Tomcat isn't really working well with the GCJ jvm... Any reason why you wouldn't run with OpenJDK ? Now that bug 212521 has been fixed in hardy you can easily use it with Tomcat 5.5... It works as advertised, and also is so much faster...

[Tom Haddon (mthaddon)]

I actually switched to using sun-java6-jdk but will try openjdk. Just wanted to report the bug in any case, but it sounds like we'd mark it as "Won't Fix"?

[Thierry Carrez (ttx)]

Yes. Absence of logs is only the first of the problems you'll encounter if you use gcj to run Tomcat :)