Service tomcat8 failed to start by using service tomcat8 start

Question

I\'m using Vagrant to deploy to Ubuntu Linux and try to start a tomcat8 service.

Tomcat 8 was installed by apt-get install tomcat8.

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Answer 1

This issue can be caused when the tomcat8 server runs under user tomcat8 and the catalina.out was created by root.

To solve this, delete catalina.out and let tomcat8 recreate it.