Installation Tomcat8 on Ubuntu server 15.10 failed

[lchan1]

Installed the Ubuntu Server 15.10

Following the installation procedure on manual: Installing ThingWorx 7.1 Version 1.3 Page 20 to 24

Then issue command

$ sudo service tomcat8 start

Job for tomcat8.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status tomcat8.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

Then issue command to check

$ sudo systemctl status tomcat8.service

● tomcat8.service - (null)

   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/tomcat8)

   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2016-09-29 17:55:15; 5min ago

     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)

  Process: 1202 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/tomcat8 start (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)

Sep 29 17:55:15 ubuntu systemd[1]: Starting (null)...

Sep 29 17:55:15 ubuntu systemd[1]: tomcat8.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=203

Sep 29 17:55:15 ubuntu systemd[1]: Failed to start (null).

Sep 29 17:55:15 ubuntu systemd[1]: tomcat8.service: Unit entered failed state.

Sep 29 17:55:15 ubuntu systemd[1]: tomcat8.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

Then issue command to check

$ sudo journalctl -xe

--

-- The error number returned by this process is 8.

Sep 29 17:55:15 ubuntu systemd[1]: tomcat8.service: Control process exited

Sep 29 17:55:15 ubuntu systemd[1]: Failed to start (null).

-- Subject: Unit tomcat8.service has failed

-- Defined-By: systemd

-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel

--

-- Unit tomcat8.service has failed.

--

-- The result is failed.

Sep 29 17:55:15 ubuntu systemd[1]: tomcat8.service: Unit entered failed state.

Sep 29 17:55:15 ubuntu systemd[1]: tomcat8.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

Sep 29 17:55:15 ubuntu polkitd(authority=local)[641]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-process:1173:655469 (system bus name :1.17, object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8) (disconnected from bus)

Please help to resolve.

What I am missing during the step 1 to 33 in the installation manual for Ubuntu?

What default user should I use during the installation of Ubuntu OS?

Thanks in advance.

Best Regards

C. Louis

[lchan1 · Accepted solution]

Problem solved. As Ubuntu 15.10 onward uses only systemd to boot start service.

I create a /etc/systemd.system/tomcat8.service

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/tomcat8.service

#Start of File

[Unit]

Description = Tomcat8 script that runs a shell script at boot

After = syslog.target

[Service]

Type=oneshot

ExecStart = /usr/share/tomcat8/bin/startup.sh

ExecStop = /usr/share/tomcat8/bin/shutdown.sh

Restart = always

RemainAfterExit = yes

Restart = always

[Install]

WantedBy = multi-user.target

#EOF

sudo chmod 755 /etc/systemd/system/tomcat8.service

sudo systemctl enable tomcat8.service

sudo reboot

#Verify tomcat8.service status.

sudo systemctl status tomcat8.service

[jjimenez-2]

Hi Louis,

In ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS it didn't work for me, can yo help me?

when i execute:

$ sudo systemctl status tomcat8.service

the output in shell is:

tomcat8.service - Tomcat8 script that runs a shell script at boot

Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/tomcat8.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)

Active: active (exited) (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2017-10-09 21:32:34 UTC; 8min ago

Process: 1384 ExecStart=/usr/share/tomcat8.5/8.5.20/bin/startup.sh (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Main PID: 1416 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Oct 09 21:32:34 edoxxiot1 systemd[1]: Starting Tomcat8 script that runs a shell script at boot...

Oct 09 21:32:34 edoxxiot1 startup.sh[1384]: Tomcat started.

Oct 09 21:32:34 edoxxiot1 systemd[1]: Started Tomcat8 script that runs a shell script at boot.

Oct 09 21:32:47 edoxxiot1 systemd[1]: tomcat8.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE

Thank you for you time,

Best regards