Tomcat init scripts missing

knirirr · n00b Joined: 20 Jan 2010 Posts: 39

I recently upgraded from Tomcat 6.0.35 to 6.0.36 and found that no init script was generated. Downgrading again didn't produce one either. There's a file at /usr/portage/www-servers/tomcat/files/tomcat.init but the functions in the ebuild that should (I presume) update this and copy it to /etc/init.d/tomcat-6 don't seem to be running.

Does anyone have any idea what is going on here, and how I might fix it?

mwoodiupui · Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2012 1:51 pm Post subject:

Me, too, upgrading Tomcat 7 to 7.0.32. It also seems to have blown away the servlet-api, jsp-api, and el-api JAR links. I had to relink them before Tomcat would start. (Fortunately I had a hacked init script on one host, that I can copy here there and everywhere I have a Tomcat.)

[later] This could have something to do with it:

mhw-sakai etc # emerge --config tomcat:7

Configuring pkg...

* pkg_config() is not defined: 'tomcat-7.0.32.ebuild'

mhw-sakai etc #

The upgrade also seems to have removed unmodified files in /etc/tomcat-*

knirirr · n00b Joined: 20 Jan 2010 Posts: 39

fordfrog · Developer Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 20

you are supposed to follow the after-merge information:

* Messages for package www-servers/tomcat-7.0.33:

* For how to deploy a server instance run:
* /usr/share/tomcat-7/gentoo/tomcat-instance-manager.bash --help
* tomcat-dbcp.jar is not built at this time. Please fetch jar
* from upstream binary if you need it. Gentoo Bug # 144276

you can also find helpful information at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Apache_Tomcat
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mwoodiupui · Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2012 6:11 pm Post subject:

knirirr · n00b Joined: 20 Jan 2010 Posts: 39

mwoodiupui · Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2012 10:36 pm Post subject:

mwoodiupui · Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 1:47 pm Post subject: Working again at last

OK, it seems that we're all expected to migrate to new Tomcat instances. I was able to use the script noted in the post-upgrade notes to create a new instance, copy the missing files to my existing instance, edit a few things that are customized per-instance, and get my existing Tomcats working again.

HOWEVER, the upgrade also seems to have removed a number of rather important JARs or symlinks thereto. In the end, to get everything working, I had to symlink servlet-api.jar, jsp-api.jar, and el-api.jar from /usr/share/tomcat-servlet-api-3.0/lib/, and eclipse-ecj.jar from /usr/share/eclipse-ecj/ into /usr/share/tomcat-7/lib/.

I would still like to know where I should have seen the announcement that we were going to be put through all this pain.

There is more discussion at https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=446378.