Unable to Start Webapp

The Tomcat RPM likes to change permissions on install / upgrade, and leave the directories unwritable by the tomcat process itself. This may surface in cpsetup with an error like:

Error running command: wget -qO- http://localhost:8080/candlepin/admin/init

Or when trying to do an import/export:

Caused by: java.io.IOException: No such file or directory
        at java.io.UnixFileSystem.createFileExclusively(Native Method)
        at java.io.File.checkAndCreate(File.java:1716)
        at java.io.File.createTempFile(File.java:1804)
        at org.apache.james.mime4j.storage.TempFileStorageProvider.createStorageOutputStream(TempFileStorageProvider.java:104)

cpsetup now has some code to try and fix this, but essentially you need to check for any dangling symlinks in /usr/share/tomcat6, and make sure the directories are writable by the tomcat process:

$ chmod g+x /var/log/tomcat6
$ chmod g+x /etc/tomcat6/
$ chown tomcat:tomcat -R /var/lib/tomcat6
$ chown tomcat:tomcat -R /var/lib/tomcat6
$ chown tomcat:tomcat -R /var/cache/tomcat6

Sometimes the no such file or directory error will originate from resteasy, which indicates the tomcat temp directory does not exist. This can be corrected with:

$ mkdir /var/cache/tomcat6/temp
$ chown root:tomcat /var/cache/tomcat6/temp
$ chmod g+w /var/cache/tomcat6/temp

RHEL 6 And java-1.5.0-gcj

We may have an issue with RHEL 6 and the Candlepin rpms. If your system is using java-1.5.0-gcj after installing the Candlepin RPMs, switch to java-1.6.0-openjdk instead. We’re probably missing a requires on our rpm.

Last modified on 1 March 2024