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

What I did to solve the issue :

Process: 1312 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/tomcat8 start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

See tomcat's dependencies
dpkg -s tomcat8-common|grep Depends

and the system java version
javar -version

And try to sort out things with the appropriate java version if things don't match.

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If that's not the case, continue :

Never bad to start with
sudo apt-get update

Check eventual running tomcat processes
ps aux | grep java

Test the pid you're going to kill
pgrep -f tomcat

Targeted action
sudo pkill -f tomcat

Start removing by typing sudo apt-get remove tomcat8-tab.
You might find :

tomcat8-common tomcat8-user

Complete remove with ( I don't know which of these below is the most appropriate to run )
sudo apt-get purge tomcat8 or
sudo apt-get --auto-remove purge tomcat8 or just
sudo apt-get remove tomcat8

You can also
sudo apt-get autoremove

Carefully sudo rm -r folders like

• /var/lib/tomcat*
• /usr/share/tomcat*
• /etc/tomcat*

Reboot
sudo systemctl reboot

When back on track install
sudo apt-get install tomcat8

Check how's going
sudo systemctl status tomcat8.service
sudo /usr/share/tomcat8/bin/version.sh

Better ?