This problem is almost certainly related to specific changes made to Fedora 15 in the pki-core.spec file to address the concerns of "Bugzilla Bug #656661 - Please Update Spec File to use %ghost on files in /var/run and /var/lock":


%package -n       pki-ca
...
%if 0%{?fedora} >= 15
# Details:
#
#     * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/var-run-tmpfs
#     * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tmpfiles.d_packaging_draft
#
Requires:         initscripts
%endif

...

%install
...
%if 0%{?fedora} >= 15
# Details:
#
#     * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/var-run-tmpfs
#     * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tmpfiles.d_packaging_draft
#
%{__mkdir_p} %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/tmpfiles.d
# generate 'pki-ca.conf' under the 'tmpfiles.d' directory
echo "D /var/lock/pki 0755 root root -"    >  %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/tmpfiles.d/pki-ca.conf
echo "D /var/lock/pki/ca 0755 root root -" >> %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/tmpfiles.d/pki-ca.conf
echo "D /var/run/pki 0755 root root -"     >> %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/tmpfiles.d/pki-ca.conf
echo "D /var/run/pki/ca 0755 root root -"  >> %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/tmpfiles.d/pki-ca.conf
%endif

...

%files -n pki-setup
...
%if 0%{?rhel} || 0%{?fedora} < 15
%dir %{_localstatedir}/lock/pki
%dir %{_localstatedir}/run/pki
%endif

...

%files -n pki-ca
...
%dir %{_localstatedir}/lock/pki/ca
%dir %{_localstatedir}/run/pki/ca
%if 0%{?fedora} >= 15
# Details:
#
#     * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/var-run-tmpfs
#     * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tmpfiles.d_packaging_draft
#
%config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/tmpfiles.d/pki-ca.conf
%endif


The details of this change are explained in the two referenced URLs and Bugzilla Bug #656661.  Unfortunately, for the past week, I have been unable to obtain a working Fedora 15 machine, and thus am blocked from debugging whether the issue is a problem with my implementation or a problem with the new 'tmpfiles.d' mechanism, or a problem with the new 'systemd' mechanism.

We were able to fix standalone 'tomcat6' in our VM by performing the following changes:

===================================================
# cd /etc/sysconfig
# diff tomcat6 tomcat6.orig
21,22c21,22
< CATALINA_BASE="/usr/share/tomcat6"
< CATALINA_HOME="/usr/share/tomcat6"
---
> #CATALINA_BASE="/usr/share/tomcat6"
> #CATALINA_HOME="/usr/share/tomcat6"
33c33
< TOMCAT_USER="tomcat"
---
> #TOMCAT_USER="tomcat"
48c48
< CATALINA_PID="/var/run/tomcat6.pid"
---
> #CATALINA_PID="/var/run/tomcat6.pid"


# chmod 775 /var/log/tomcat6

# chmod 775 /etc/tomcat6
=======================================================


Applying similar logic to address the issue in 'pki-cad',
we discovered that there was a change in '/etc/init.d/tomcat6'
between Fedora 14 and Fedora 15 -- it now makes use of the
CATALINA_HOME variable (that we were previously able to leave
undefined).  This was discovered by observing the following:

(1) /var/log/pki-ca/catalina.out:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/catalina/startup/Bootstrap
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap
	at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:217)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:321)
	at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:294)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:266)
Could not find the main class: org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap. Program will exit.

To address this issue, we set CATALINA_HOME=/var/lib/pki-ca in both /etc/sysconfig/pki-ca and /var/lib/pki-ca/conf/tomcat6.conf, and looped on 'ps -ef | grep java' to discover the following:

/usr/lib/jvm/java/bin/java -classpath :/var/lib/pki-ca/bin/bootstrap.jar:/var/lib/pki-ca/bin/tomcat-juli.jar:/usr/share/java/commons-daemon.jar -Dcatalina.base=/var/lib/pki-ca -Dcatalina.home=/var/lib/pki-ca -Djava.endorsed.dirs= -Djava.io.tmpdir= -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/var/lib/pki-ca/conf/logging.properties -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start

NOTE:  The classpath is incorrect for bin/bootstrap.jar and bin/tomcat-juli.jar
       since they need to be preceded by /usr/share/tomcat6.

Unfortunately, simply changing CATALINA_HOME in both places to "/usr/share/tomcat6" did not work.

Additionally, leaving the CATALINA_HOME defined as /var/lib/pki-ca, we tried placing a symlink /var/lib/pki-ca/bin --> /usr/share/tomcat6/bin, but this did not work either.

I understand what is going on, see the diff below to understand how they modified the initialization, here is issue in a nutshell

The expected behaviour is for the tomcat6 supplied config file to be read first, this establishes defaults for tomcat6. Then the instance config file is read which can selectively override the defaults. They changed the order, now the instance specific config is read first followed by the default tomcat6 config file which has the potential to undo the instance specific configuration. But what's worse is that the reading of the system supplied tomcat6 config file only occurs if the instance config file sets CATALINA_HOME, which we don't (because it's a system supplied value that we shouldn't be mucking with, e.g. it's part of the tomcat6 packaging).

If CATALINA_HOME is not set multiple things will blow up (as you've seen). Also because our instance config file does not set values normally set by the tomcat6 config there may be potentially other problems due to unset values.

If we set CATALINA_HOME then the tomcat6 supplied config file will be read *after* our per instance config and undo our settings.

IMHO I think they completely broke the initialization. I think perhaps they may have wanted to support using a different CATALINA_HOME set by the per instance config. If that's the case I don't think they understood the consequences. You would have to completely copy the contents of CATALINA_HOME and change it's conf/tomcat6.conf file so it doesn't undo the per instance settings. But wait, the entire point of partitioning CATALINA_HOME and CATALINA_BASE is exactly to allow per instance configuration while retaining the system supplied contents in CATALINA_HOME, so it seems to me this change is very broken. CATALINA_HOME is supposed to be an immutable property of the tomcat6 package (why? because it is essentially the run-time contents of the tomcat6 package)

But perhaps I'm missing something or not privy to the reasoning behind the change. I want to have a conversation with David Knox who made the change to understand what he thought he was trying to accomplish, the wording in the changelog is quite vague.

FWIW, I don't see this as "our" problem with something we need to adjust in our usage of tomcat6, at the moment it seems to me it's the tomcat6 package that needs fixing.  

git diff HEAD~5 tomcat6-6.0.init 
diff --git a/tomcat6-6.0.init b/tomcat6-6.0.init
index 4123f1c..43f53a4 100644
--- a/tomcat6-6.0.init
+++ b/tomcat6-6.0.init
@@ -43,17 +43,17 @@ else
     SU="/bin/su -s /bin/sh"
 fi
 
-# Get the tomcat config (use this for environment specific settings)
-TOMCAT_CFG="/etc/tomcat6/tomcat6.conf"
-if [ -r "$TOMCAT_CFG" ]; then
-    . $TOMCAT_CFG
-fi
-
 # Get instance specific config file
 if [ -r "/etc/sysconfig/${NAME}" ]; then
     . /etc/sysconfig/${NAME}
 fi
 
+# Get the tomcat config (use this for environment specific settings)
+TOMCAT_CFG="${CATALINA_HOME}/conf/tomcat6.conf"
+if [ -r "$TOMCAT_CFG" ]; then
+    . $TOMCAT_CFG
+fi
+
 # Define which connector port to use
 CONNECTOR_PORT="${CONNECTOR_PORT:-8080}"
 
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ TOMCAT_PROG="${NAME}"
 TOMCAT_USER="${TOMCAT_USER:-tomcat}"
 
 # Define the tomcat log file
-TOMCAT_LOG="${TOMCAT_LOG:-/var/log/tomcat6/catalina.out}"
+TOMCAT_LOG="${TOMCAT_LOG:-${CATALINA_HOME}/logs/catalina.out}"
 
 RETVAL="0"
 
tomcat6 (f15)$

Does this suggest that if we pull the tomcat6 init script from F-14 it would work?

re comment #4: 

I would think so, but I know better than to make claims for things I have not tested yet :-)

I just finished communicating with David Knox and it seems he applied the patch per someone else's suggestion but upon further review after I pointed out the issues he agrees it was a mistake and is in the process of backing out the changes. Apparently it was also committed to f14.

Once I see the fix hit the f15 koji I'll download and test.

I think we're O.K. now, this was fixed in tomcat6-6.0.30-3 built on 2/28, we're currently at tomcat6-6.0.30-5. There is no Bohdi push required because f15 has not been released. This change does not affect f14.

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