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After installing updates and rebooting, tomcat was found to be not running. This was observed on multiple servers.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Update tomcat package
2. Reboot
3.
Actual Results:  
tomcat is not running and not configured to start on boot.

[root@null  ~]# service tomcat status
tomcat is stopped                                          [  OK  ]
[root@null  ~]# chkconfig --list | grep tomcat
[root@null  ~]# 

Expected Results:  
tomcat is running and configured to start on boot.

preuninstall script unconditionally runs 'chkconfig --del'  and preuninstall script of old package runs after the postinstall script of new package. 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Scriptlets



[root@null~]# rpm -qi --scripts tomcat
Name        : tomcat                       Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 7.0.65                            Vendor: Fedora Project
Release     : 1.el6                         Build Date: Wed 06 Jan 2016 18:50:42 GMT
Install Date: Mon 22 Feb 2016 04:09:52 GMT      Build Host: buildhw-09-nfs.phx2.fedoraproject.org
Group       : System Environment/Daemons    Source RPM: tomcat-7.0.65-1.el6.src.rpm
Size        : 312860                           License: ASL 2.0
Signature   : RSA/8, Thu 07 Jan 2016 16:36:23 GMT, Key ID 3b49df2a0608b895
Packager    : Fedora Project
URL         : http://tomcat.apache.org/
Summary     : Apache Servlet/JSP Engine, RI for Servlet 3.0/JSP 2.2 API
Description :
Tomcat is the servlet container that is used in the official Reference
Implementation for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies.
The Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages specifications are developed by
Sun under the Java Community Process.

Tomcat is developed in an open and participatory environment and
released under the Apache Software License version 2.0. Tomcat is intended
to be a collaboration of the best-of-breed developers from around the world.
preinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
# add the tomcat user and group
/usr/sbin/groupadd -g 91 -r tomcat 2>/dev/null || :
/usr/sbin/useradd -c "Apache Tomcat" -u 91 -g tomcat \
    -s /bin/nologin -r -d /usr/share/tomcat tomcat 2>/dev/null || :
postinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
/sbin/chkconfig --add tomcat
preuninstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
# clean tempdir and workdir on removal or upgrade
/etc/init.d/tomcat stop >/dev/null 2>&1
/sbin/chkconfig --del tomcat
/bin/rm -rf /var/cache/tomcat/work/* /var/cache/tomcat/temp/*
[root@null ~]#