[Bug 1308284] Re: catalina.properties points to wrong location for shared libraries and classes

2015-03-25 Thread Tim Donohue
This ticket seems to be a duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tomcat7/+bug/1232258 The #1232258 ticket suggests instead that symlinks be created to resolve this problem. Unfortunately, simply changing the "${catalina.home}" settings in the catalina.properties file(s) to "${cata

[Bug 1232258] Re: tomcat7 installer fails to create symbolic links

2015-03-25 Thread Tim Donohue
After further analysis today, I realized my suggestion to correct the configurations in catalina.properties to point at ${catalina.base} instead of ${catalina.home} was WRONG. The original suggestion of symlinks is a better solution, since the location of ${catalina.base} may not always resolve to

[Bug 1232258] Re: tomcat7 installer fails to create symbolic links

2015-03-24 Thread Tim Donohue
Per my previous comment, this issue seems to be a possible duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tomcat7/+bug/1308284 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to tomcat7 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/12

[Bug 1232258] Re: tomcat7 installer fails to create symbolic links

2015-03-24 Thread Tim Donohue
I ran into this bug today on Ubuntu Server 14.04. I could be wrong, but I'm not sure this is an issue of missing symbolic links, but rather a minor misconfiguration of catalina.properties on Ubuntu 14.04. Specifically, the "server.loader" and "shared.loader" settings are referencing CATALINA_HOME