Comment 0 for bug 591802

Binary package hint: tomcat6

Using tomcat6 package version 6.0.24-2ubuntu, after editing /etc/default/tomcat6 to set TOMCAT6_SECURITY=yes, Tomcat breaks on startup with (in catalina.out):

Using CATALINA_BASE: /var/lib/tomcat6
Using CATALINA_HOME: /usr/share/tomcat6
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /tmp/tomcat6-tmp
Using JRE_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk
Using CLASSPATH: /usr/share/tomcat6/bin/bootstrap.jar
Using Security Manager
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
        at org.apache.juli.logging.LogFactory.getInstance(LogFactory.java:171)
        at org.apache.juli.logging.LogFactory.getInstance(LogFactory.java:243)
        at org.apache.juli.logging.LogFactory.getLog(LogFactory.java:298)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.<clinit>(Bootstrap.java:55)
Caused by: java.security.AccessControlException: access denied (java.util.PropertyPermission java.util.logging.config.class read)
        at java.security.AccessControlContext.checkPermission(AccessControlContext.java:342)
        at java.security.AccessController.checkPermission(AccessController.java:553)
        at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPermission(SecurityManager.java:549)
        at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPropertyAccess(SecurityManager.java:1302)
        at java.lang.System.getProperty(System.java:669)
        at org.apache.juli.logging.DirectJDKLog.<clinit>(DirectJDKLog.java:43)
        ... 4 more
Could not find the main class: org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap. Program will exit.

The problem is that -Djava.security.policy is being set twice, firstly in /etc/init.d/tomcat6 to $CATALINA_BASE/work/catalina.policy (correct), secondly in /usr/share/tomcat6/bin/catalina.sh to $CATALINA_BASE/conf/catalina.policy (an invalid path). Unfortunately the second takes precedence, and so no policy file is actually used.

To fix this, I suggest patching catalina.sh to change 'conf/catalina.policy' references to 'work/catalina.policy'. It would also be good to remove the explicit setting of -Djava.security.manager and -Djava.security.policy from the init.d script, since it is done anyway in the init script. I've attached two patches for this.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: tomcat6 6.0.24-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jun 10 01:14:40 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100427.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: tomcat6