Bug 734214

1385 sub wait_for_tomcat {
1386     my $hostname = shift;
1387 
1388     for (my $i = 0; $i < 20; $i++) {
1389         IO::Socket::INET->new(
1390             PeerAddr => 'localhost',
1391             PeerPort => '8009',
1392             Proto    => 'tcp'
1393         ) or last;
1394         sleep 5;
1395     }
1396 
1397     for (my $i = 0; $i < 20; $i++) {
1398         my $retval = system("HEAD http://$hostname/ 2>&1 > /dev/null");
1399         if ($retval) {
1400             sleep 5;
1401         }
1402         else {
1403             return;
1404         }
1405     }
1406     print "Tomcat failed to start properly or the installer ran out of tries.  Please check /var/log/tomcat*/catalina.out for errors.\n";
1407     return;
1408 }

Looks cool. Finally this problem gets solved ;-)

Comment #1 needs to be ported to python and added to cpsetup.

I don't think we can rely on HEAD system call which is provided by
perl-libwww-perl, but we can simulate a HEAD call from within python:

http://docs.python.org/library/httplib.html

from the docs:
>>> import httplib
>>> conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("www.python.org")
>>> conn.request("HEAD","/index.html")
>>> res = conn.getresponse()

Fixed in 9d38c154297e760839934fb8333b4e0a4a6a9af4

VERIFIED, 

candlepin-tomcat6-0.4.27-1.fc14.noarch
candlepin-0.4.27-1.fc14.noarch

Set up candlepin according to: https://fedorahosted.org/candlepin/wiki/Setup  on a slow computer.

running the cpsetup:


[root@localhost ~]# /usr/share/candlepin/cpsetup
Dropping candlepin database
Creating candlepin database
Loading candlepin schema
Writing configuration file
Creating CA private key password
Creating CA private key
Creating CA public key
Creating CA certificate
Waiting for tomcat to restart...
Candlepin has been configured.


The "waiting for tomcat restart" took about 20 seconds (longer than the old 5 second wait) and did not error out.