I think this is likely an issue in apport rather than in tomcat7. Changed package to reflect that. Will test later to determine the reproducibility of this issue.
** Package changed: tomcat7 (Ubuntu) => apport (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to apport in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1262202 Title: ubuntu-bug tomcat7 is crashing with "permission denied" Status in “apport” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: On Ubuntu 12.04 i wanted to report a bug against tomcat7, so i used "ubuntu-bug tomcat7" and i got this traceback: The first two german lines are just "collecting information can be send to the developers to improve the application" Die gesammelten Informationen können an die Entwickler gesendet werden um die Anwendung zu verbessern. Dies kann einige Minuten dauern. ......................ERROR: hook /usr/share/apport/general-hooks/ubuntu.py crashed: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 719, in add_hooks_info symb['add_info'](self, ui) File "/usr/share/apport/general-hooks/ubuntu.py", line 92, in add_info attach_conffiles(report, package, ui=ui) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/hookutils.py", line 107, in attach_conffiles modified = packaging.get_modified_conffiles(package) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/packaging_impl.py", line 263, in get_modified_conffiles with open(path, 'rb') as fd: IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/tomcat7/tomcat-users.xml' .... ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: tomcat7 7.0.26-1ubuntu1.2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-43.66~precise1-generic 3.5.7.23 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-43-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.6 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Dec 18 14:04:59 2013 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 12.04.2 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20130214) MarkForUpload: True PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: tomcat7 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1262202/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
