On 07/27/2014 11:41 AM, Brian Burch wrote: > On 27/07/14 16:06, tony mancill wrote: >> On 07/26/2014 09:59 AM, Brian Burch wrote: >>> Package: tomcat7-examples >>> Version: 7.0.52-1 >>> Severity: normal >>> >>> Dear Maintainer, >>> >>> The tomcat7 examples webapp does not start after a clean install. The >>> stack trace follows: >> >> Hello Brian, >> >> Thank you for the bug report. I'm not able to reproduce this with the >> current version of the package in Debian testing, 7.0.54-2. This may be >> a larger problem for Ubuntu trusty, since 7.0.52-1 is the released >> version there. >> >>> Debian Release: jessie/sid >>> APT prefers trusty-updates >>> APT policy: (500, 'trusty-updates'), (500, 'trusty-security'), >>> (500, 'trusty') >>> Architecture: i386 (i686) >>> >>> Kernel: Linux 3.13.0-32-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores) >>> Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) >>> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash >>> >>> Versions of packages tomcat7-examples depends on: >>> ii libjakarta-taglibs-standard-java 1.1.2-2ubuntu1 >>> ii libjstl1.1-java 1.1.2-2ubuntu1 >>> ii tomcat7-common 7.0.52-1 >> >> I notice from the system information that you might be running a mixture >> of Ubuntu and Debian. > > Actually, I generated the bug report on a ubuntu 14.04 desktop system > with the reportbug tool (using the --bts debian option) because the > machine which runs tomcat in production cannot easily send emails. > > The tomcat system which produced the error is running lubuntu 14.04, but > I cross-checked and both systems have the same package versions installed. > > My desktop has been upgraded through at least 10 ubuntu versions, and > generally messed around with a lot, so I didn't try to reproduce the > "bug" on it - I just used it to create the bug report. > >> Could you try the 7.0.54-2 package either from >> utopic or Debian testing (jessie)? > > No need! I just downloaded tomcat7-examples_7.0.52-1_all.deb from the > ubuntu trusty 14.04 repository and unpacked it. I was surprised to > discover that the /etc/tomcat7/Catalina/localhost/examples.xml file > inside the package has the allowLinking="true" element in its context. > > I don't remember doing it, but I must have replaced the distributed > context with an older version while customising the system to run under > my own virtual host name. > > I apologise for opening this bug report and wasting your time. Please > close it as invalid.
Hi Brian, No problem at all - better a false positive now and then than unreported issues floating around causing problems for users. Thank you for reporting what looked like an issue and then for following up. Cheers, tony
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