I have been struggling with an issue which resulted in the same
message: "Service
exit with a return value of 143".
In the end the problem was with a custom init script that was calling jsvc
directly. I did not bother to find the precise root cause though. When I
saw daemon.sh worked, I simply modified my init script to use it.
daemon.sh is sensitive to many environment variables. Do you have some of
these variables exported? I suggest to run deamon.sh from a "clean" shell.
Define variables one by one as required and see if Tomcat finally starts
correctly.
2015-07-24 6:53 GMT-04:00 Robert Jacobs <robertjacob...@gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Mark Eggers
> <its_toas...@yahoo.com.invalid
> > wrote:
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> > On 7/24/2015 12:59 AM, Robert Jacobs wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > We are having problems getting tomcat to work with JSVC on RHEL 7.1
> > > (maipo). We found out that Tomcat restarts do not always result in
> > > expected behaviour. The pattern of this unexpected behavior
> > > (Service exit with a return value of 143) is random. This random
> > > pattern might depend on the deploy-time of Tomcat during startup.
> > >
> > > The problem might lay within the daemon functionality using JSVC.
> > >
> > > We have tried this one two machines; - Fedora 20 desktop ->
> > > everything works fine - RHEL 7.1 virtual machine -> random fails
> > >
> > > Tried versions of tomcat 8 include 18 and 24.
> > >
> > > We did see other people with this exact problem and error code, but
> > > these problems existed for tomcat 5 to 7. We could not find
> > > information regarding tomcat 8 yet.
> > >
> > > Our findings are as follows: systemctl start tomcat fail
> > > (143) systemctl stop tomcat fail (143) systemctl restart
> > > tomcat fail (143) etc/init.d/tomcat start pass
> > > etc/init.d/tomcat stop pass etc/init.d/tomcat restart
> > > fail (143)(note: combined stop/start) CATALINA_HOME/bin/daemon.sh
> > > start pass CATALINA_HOME/bin/daemon.sh stop pass
> > >
> > > General note for all stop commands: Every time this "Server
> > > startup" is not finished, each stop command results in the 143
> > > exit.
> > >
> > > The two methods of starting tomcat: init.d and systemctl are:
> > > ###########init.d############ #!/bin/bash
> > >
> > > CATALINA_HOME="/opt/apache-tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.0.24"
> > >
> > > start() { sh $CATALINA_HOME/bin/daemon.sh start } stop() { sh
> > > $CATALINA_HOME/bin/daemon.sh stop }
> > >
> > > case $1 in start|stop) $1;; restart) stop; start;; *) echo "Run as
> > > $0 <start|stop|restart>"; exit 1;; esac ###########end of
> > > init.d############
> > >
> > > ###########systemctl############ [Unit] Description=Apache Tomcat
> > > Server
> > >
> > > [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target
> > >
> > > [Service] Type=oneshot
> > > ExecStart=/opt/apache-tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.0.24/bin/daemon.sh
> > > start
> > > ExecStop=/opt/apache-tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.0.24/bin/daemon.sh
> > > stop User=adsswebserver Group=adsswebserver ###########end of
> > > systemctl############
> > >
> > > Server version: Apache Tomcat/8.0.24 Server built:
> > > Jul 1 2015 20:19:55 UTC Server number: 8.0.24.0 OS Name:
> > > Linux OS Version: 3.10.0-229.7.2.el7.x86_64
> > > Architecture: amd64 Java Home:
> > > /usr/java/jdk1.8.0_20/jre JVM Version: 1.8.0_20-b26 JVM
> > > Vendor: Oracle Corporation CATALINA_BASE:
> > > /opt/apache-tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.0.24 CATALINA_HOME:
> > > /opt/apache-tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.0.24 Command line argument:
> > > -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/opt/apache-tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.0.2
> > 4//conf/logging.properties
> > >
> > >
> > Command line argument:
> > > -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager
> > > Command line argument: -Djava.endorsed.dirs= Command line
> > > argument: -Dcatalina.base=/opt/apache-tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.0.24/
> > > Command line argument:
> > > -Dcatalina.home=/opt/apache-tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.0.24 Command
> > > line argument:
> > > -Djava.io.tmpdir=/opt/apache-tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.0.24//temp
> > > Command line argument: -Dcommons.daemon.process.id=13312 Command
> > > line argument: -Dcommons.daemon.process.parent=13311 Command line
> > > argument: -Dcommons.daemon.version=1.0.15-dev Command line
> > > argument: abort
> > >
> > > Any advice would be appreciated.
> > >
> >
> > A couple of quick notes, although it's early and I may be barking up
> > the wrong tree.
> >
> > In your init.d script for restart, I don't see any wait time between
> > the start and stop commands. Does daemon.sh stop return immediately,
> > or does it not return until the Tomcat (jsvc) process is stopped?
> >
> > In your systemd script, I didn't see the following line under [Unit]:
> >
> > After=syslog.target network.target
> >
> > You may not need syslog.target, but I would suspect that you need
> > network.target.
> >
> > . . . just my (1 AM) 2 cents
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> Hello,
>
> Thanks a lot for your (super) fast response! Highly appreciated!
>
> These are the outcomes regarding your mail;
>
>
> > *In your systemd script, I didn't see the following line under
> > [Unit]:After=syslog.target network.target*
>
>
> We have added the line After=syslog.target network.target to tomcat.service
> file. Same result (status code 143).
>
>
> > *Does daemon.sh stop return immediately,or does it not return until the
> > Tomcat (jsvc) process is stopped?*
>
>
> It does return AFTER JSVC stopped. This was observed using two console
> windows, one giving command to stop tomcat service and one watching ps for
> the JSVC instance (0.1 seconds interval).
>
> We started the daemon.sh ourselves using
> /opt/apache-tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.0.24/bin/daemon.sh start (pass)
> We stopped the daemon.sh ourselves using
> /opt/apache-tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.0.24/bin/daemon.sh stop
>
> Log of failing start:
>
> [main] org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener.lifecycleEvent The APR
> based Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performance in
> production environments was not found on the java.library.path:
>
> /usr/java/default/lib/amd64/server:/usr/java/default/lib/amd64:/usr/java/packages/lib/amd64:/usr/lib64:/lib64:/lib:/usr/lib
> [main] org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol.init Initializing ProtocolHandler
> ["http-nio-8080"]
> [main] org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioSelectorPool.getSharedSelector Using a
> shared selector for servlet write/read
> [main] org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol.init Initializing ProtocolHandler
> ["ajp-nio-8009"]
> [main] org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioSelectorPool.getSharedSelector Using a
> shared selector for servlet write/read
> [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load Initialization processed
> in 598 ms
> [main] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.startInternal Starting
> service Catalina
> [main] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.startInternal Starting
> Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/8.0.24
> [localhost-startStop-1]
> org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory Deploying web
> application directory /opt/apache-tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.0.24/webapps/ROOT
> *Service exit with a return value of 143*
>
>
>
> > *In your init.d script for restart, I don't see any wait time betweenthe
> > start and stop commands.*
>
>
> Correct. We have tried with sleep 10 now as well. But that does not help
> with the problem. We have found out that when we start tomcat using
> init.d/tomcat start, there is an OK back to terminal, but tomcat has not
> finished deploying webapps (see also 30 seconds ROOT deployment note below)
> during server startup. On the next restart (which stops tomcat first),
> tomcat has not finished server startup and then returns error 143, because
> we stop it before it finished starting.
>
>
> We have also noticed that startup of webapps/ROOT can take a long time.
> See the log below for an example of a startup time > 30 seconds;
>
> 24-Jul-2015 11:53:47.459 INFO [localhost-startStop-1]
> org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory Deploying web
> application directory /opt/apache-tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.0.24/webapps/ROOT
> 24-Jul-2015 11:54:17.964 INFO [localhost-startStop-1]
> org.apache.catalina.util.SessionIdGeneratorBase.createSecureRandom Creation
> of SecureRandom instance for session ID generation using [SHA1PRNG] took
> [30,248] milliseconds.
> 24-Jul-2015 11:54:17.986 INFO [localhost-startStop-1]
> org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory Deployment of web
> application directory /opt/apache-tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.0.24/webapps/ROOT
> has finished in 30,527 ms
>
>
> Thanks again!
>
>
>
> --
> Met vriendelijke groet / With kind regards,
> Robert Jacobs
>
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Philippe Anctil
