I run a server with Debian 7 (Wheezy) and a fresh installation of tomcat7.
When i try to start the tomcat service either from init.d or suing the service command i get the bellow error:
[FAIL] Starting Tomcat servlet engine: tomcat7 failed! What makes me nuts is that the log (catalina.out) is completely empty hence i cant really troubleshoot this.
Any ideas?
I've run into a problem with identical symptoms.
$ sudo service tomcat7 start * Starting Tomcat servlet engine tomcat7 ...fail! $ Nothing in catalina.out and nothing any sys logs. Finding the problem was simplified by going to /usr/share/tomcat./bin and running the startup.sh file from the command line, this displayed the error. In my case, it was a missing quotation mark in setenv.sh which caused bash to barf out during startup.
The problem was spotted to the "catalina" config file which did not have read permissions in "group". This shouldn’t have taken more than five minutes however it took a lot of time to troubleshoot since there were no logs at all. Still there are no logs btw which i haven’t managed to find out why.
The reason catalina file was getting wrong permissions was because i used salstack framework (http://saltstack.com) to setup the server and in one of the "states" (files instructing how the setup will progress) i gave wrong permissions.
I narrowed down the problem because when i was reinstalling tomcat7 it was working properly and when i used the saltstack framework-tool which altered the config files (which in-turn gave wrong permissions) tomcat was not working.
