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

Verify your tomcat8 configuration file in /etc/default/tomcat8. See if there are badly configured variables.

For me, this error was caused by the following variables in my configuration file:

-Djava.awt.headless=true -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC
JAVA_OPTS="-Djava.awt.headless=true -Xss4m -Xmx2g -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC"

I commented and it worked.