[Bug 288616] [NEW] Tomcat 6 fails to start during install

[Thierry Carrez]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: tomcat6

In some cases  Tomcat 6 fails to successfully start *during install*.
This doesn't prevent the installation from succeeding and you can still
run "sudo service tomcat6 start" to start it once it is installed.

If a JRE is not completely configured by the time Tomcat is started,
Tomcat will fail to start. This can happen in some installation
scenarios as Tomcat 6 doesn't formally "pre-depend" on a JRE.

For example, on a minimal system, the packages seem to be configured in that order (some lines removed for clarity):
$ sudo apt-get install tomcat6 tomcat6-examples tomcat6-admin tomcat6-user
Setting up default-jre-headless (1.6-30ubuntu3) ...
Setting up openjdk-6-jre-lib (6b12-0ubuntu4) ...
Setting up tomcat6 (6.0.18-0ubuntu3) ...
 * Starting Tomcat servlet engine tomcat6  ...fail!
Setting up openjdk-6-jre-headless (6b12-0ubuntu4) ...

However if you run:
$ sudo apt-get install tomcat6
Setting up openjdk-6-jre-lib (6b12-0ubuntu4) ...
Setting up default-jre-headless (1.6-30ubuntu3) ...
Setting up openjdk-6-jre-headless (6b12-0ubuntu4) ...
Setting up tomcat6 (6.0.18-0ubuntu3) ...
 * Starting Tomcat servlet engine tomcat6  [OK]

** Affects: tomcat6 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Low
         Status: Confirmed

** Changed in: tomcat6 (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Tomcat 6 fails to start during install
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/288616
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