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Installation Tomcat8 on Ubuntu server 15.10 failed

  • September 29, 2016
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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

Best answer by lchan1

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

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lchan11-VisitorAuthorAnswer
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October 2, 2016

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

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jjimenez-21-Visitor
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October 10, 2017

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

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