The problem is not that relative directories are used. Use of relative directories is correct and consistent with the standard. The problem is that with the current Debian/Ubuntu/Natty installation of Tomcat6, the links to the relative directory were broken. The workaround that I provided in my 2012-01-11 comment correctly makes symbolic links to the relative directories active. It neither makes the links hard links nor moves the directories to an absolute location.
Without this change, Tomcat6 does did work. Why will you not fix the bad links problem. Non-technical users will not have the ability to find and repair the result of this incomplete installation and will not be able to use packages dependent on Tomcat6. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/915089 Title: Tomcat 6 start up fails with unknown dir /var/lib/tomcat6/work To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tomcat6/+bug/915089/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
