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 could be related to this bug. Recent versions of Java deprecate the use of endorsed directories and fail if one is specified, but Tomcat8 specifies one even if it doesn't exist. Check the log in /var/log/tomcat8/ as suggested in the comments to your question to see whether this is indeed the source of your problem. If it is, you can either wait for the bug to be fixed or try the updated catalina.sh file suggested in the linked bug report.