Package: tomcat6 Version: 6.0.32-7 I installed the Debian wheezy net install dated December 8th, 2011, for AMD-64, and selected the 'SSH Server' option during install.
I then executed the commad: $ sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk openjdk-7-jre-headless Which appeared to complete without error. I then executed the command $ sudo apt-get install tomcat6 Which failed in the tomcat6 initscript: >>>>> Selecting previously unselected package tomcat6. Unpacking tomcat6 (from .../tomcat6_6.0.32-7_all.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up authbind (1.2.0) ... Setting up libcommons-pool-java (1.5.6-1) ... Setting up libcommons-dbcp-java (1.4-2) ... Setting up libecj-java (3.5.1-3) ... Setting up libgeronimo-jta-1.1-spec-java (1.1.1-2) ... Setting up libservlet2.5-java (6.0.32-7) ... Setting up libtomcat6-java (6.0.32-7) ... Setting up tomcat6-common (6.0.32-7) ... Setting up tomcat6 (6.0.32-7) ... Creating config file /etc/default/tomcat6 with new version Adding system user `tomcat6' (UID 105) ... Adding new user `tomcat6' (UID 105) with group `tomcat6' ... Not creating home directory `/usr/share/tomcat6'. no JDK found - please set JAVA_HOME ... failed! invoke-rc.d: initscript tomcat6, action "start" failed. <<<<< If I edit '/etc/default/tomcat6' to specify my JAVA_HOME as '/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-amd64' the tomcat6 init script is able to run successfully. The tomcat6 initscript checks a hard-coded list of jvm paths, and the location of my openjdk-7 installation is not among them. Of interest, the tomcat7 init script checks first for '/usr/lib/jvm/default-java', but that wouldn't have helped since the openjdk-7 installation doesn't create that path. So presumably this bug would also apply to tomcat7, but I have not tested that. Antoine
