Description of problem: Systemd does not successfully start tomcat daemon after upgrade to fc19 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): tomcat-jsvc-7.0.47-1.fc19.noarch How reproducible: Always fails to work since upgrade. Steps to Reproduce: 1. systemctl start tomcat-jsvc.service 2. 3. Actual results: No response. No Tomcat running. The following line appears to catalina.out: Service exit with a return value of 143 Expected results: Tomcat server daemon running Additional info: While this isn't working using system, if I type: /usr/sbin/tomcat-jsvc-sysd start the tomcat daemon starts and works fine.
Upgraded to FC20, problem persists. It actually got worse as I had to modify /usr/sbin/tomcat-jsvc to explicitly set TOMCAT_USER and CATALINA_BASE as otherwise they are empty and cause even my workaround to fail.
Yes on FC20 jsvc support was degradated. But it is strange that it is not works on FC19.
One more thing to note after the upgrade to FC20 is that tomcat does start after a long wait on the initial system boot now BUT if I try to stop it using the systemctl stop tomcat-jsvc.service, it fails and I cannot restart it using this method and even if I kill the processes and try to start using systemctl, it fails. I also notice that the /var/run/tomcat.pid file is empty. I thought it usually should contain the pid of the tomcat process. I mention it in case it is helpful. --- Your comment came in as I was typing. Why was it degradated? Any good option for me since I use this? Thanks!
We will work to restore this feature, as it is appeared to be used by you and may be others. As an option you can consider using some frontend server on your privileged ports, like nginx or httpd, and use tomcat as backend server behind of them. Or use iptables to nat your privileged ports to tomcat's unprivileged. Or use xinetd to redirect traffic of your privileged ports to tomcat's unprivileged. We can create tomcat-nginx and/or tomcat-httpd subpackages with tomcat frontend vhosts for nginx and/or httpd if you think it would be helpful. I think using frontend server is generally the best solution, much better then using jsvc. But nevertheless I'll try to restore it in F19 and F20 too.
If you can restore the functionality that would be great. Thanks!
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tomcat-7.0.59-1.fc21 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 21. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/tomcat-7.0.59-1.fc21
Package tomcat-7.0.59-1.fc21: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 21 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing tomcat-7.0.59-1.fc21' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-2109/tomcat-7.0.59-1.fc21 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
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tomcat-7.0.59-1.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.