Service tomcat8 failed to start by using service tomcat8 start

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Liky picture Liky · Mar 28, 2016 · Viewed 45.9k times · Source

I'm using Vagrant to deploy to Ubuntu Linux and try to start a tomcat8 service.

Tomcat 8 was installed by apt-get install tomcat8.

When using the service tomcat8 start command, I got the following error:

Job for tomcat8.service failed. See "systemctl status tomcat8.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

Then I tracked the systemctl status tomcat8.service, found that:

? tomcat8.service - LSB: Start Tomcat. Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/tomcat8)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2016-03-28 09:44:17 GMT; 5s ago
Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
Process: 884 ExecStop=/etc/init.d/tomcat8 stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 1312 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/tomcat8 start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Mar 28 09:44:12 vagrant-ubuntu-trusty systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Start Tomcat....
Mar 28 09:44:12 vagrant-ubuntu-trusty tomcat8[1312]: * Starting Tomcat servlet engine tomcat8
Mar 28 09:44:17 vagrant-ubuntu-trusty tomcat8[1312]: ...fail!
Mar 28 09:44:17 vagrant-ubuntu-trusty systemd[1]: tomcat8.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Mar 28 09:44:17 vagrant-ubuntu-trusty systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Start Tomcat..
Mar 28 09:44:17 vagrant-ubuntu-trusty systemd[1]: Unit tomcat8.service entered failed state.
Mar 28 09:44:17 vagrant-ubuntu-trusty systemd[1]: tomcat8.service failed.

I'm unsure of how to proceed to get my Tomcat 8 service running.

Answer

Manuel Tijerino picture Manuel Tijerino · Nov 29, 2019

This issue can be caused when the tomcat8 server runs under user tomcat8 and the catalina.out was created by root.

To solve this, delete catalina.out and let tomcat8 recreate it.

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