Package: tomcat8 Version: 8.5.38-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation? Installing tomcat8 and trying to enable debug * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? I edited /etc/default/tomcat8 and uncommented the line that add debug options to JAVA_OPTS * What was the outcome of this action? After the change tomcat8 service can not be started * What outcome did you expect instead? I expected tomcat8 to been able to start. The issue seems to be related to the usage of ${JAVA_OPTS} as a variable expansion. Systemd does not supporte variable expansion in "Environment" attributes and it seems like it doesn't either when environmentFiles are loaded. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages tomcat8 depends on: ii adduser 3.118 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.71 ii lsb-base 10.2019031300 ii tomcat8-common 8.5.38-2 ii ucf 3.0038+nmu1 Versions of packages tomcat8 recommends: ii authbind 2.1.2 ii libtcnative-1 1.2.21-1 Versions of packages tomcat8 suggests: pn tomcat8-admin <none> pn tomcat8-docs <none> pn tomcat8-examples <none> pn tomcat8-user <none> -- Configuration Files: /etc/tomcat8/catalina.properties changed [not included] /etc/tomcat8/context.xml changed [not included] /etc/tomcat8/server.xml changed [not included] -- debconf information excluded