There was a pid file in that location. I removed it and restarted tomcat. commands: rm /opt/tomcat/temp/tomcat.pid systemctl restart tomcat systemctl status tomcat
tomcat.service - Apache Tomcat Web Application Container Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/tomcat.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2016-12-20 13:27:49 PST; 5s ago Process: 31130 ExecStop=/opt/tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Process: 31117 ExecStart=/opt/tomcat/bin/startup.sh (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 31129 (code=exited, status=2) And I'm still getting the same results from the journalctl -xe. On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 1:12 PM, Niranjan Babu Bommu < niranjan.bo...@gmail.com> wrote: > may be pid file lying around from earlier stop/start? > > remove the pid file and start again. > > /opt/tomcat/temp/tomcat.pid > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 4:08 PM, Mary Wiegand <naviak.kai...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm installing tomcat v8.5.9 on ubuntu 16.04 >> >> this is my tomcat.service file: >> >> #System unit file for tomcat >> [Unit] >> Description=Apache Tomcat Web Application Container >> After=network.target >> >> [Service] >> Type=forking >> >> Environment=JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre/bin/java >> Environment=CATALINA_PID=/opt/tomcat/temp/tomcat.pid >> Environment=CATALINA_HOME=/opt/tomcat >> Environment=CATALINA_BASE=/opt/tomcat >> Environment='CATALINA_OPTS=-Xms512M -Xmx1024M -server-XX:+UseParallelGC' >> Environment='JAVA_OPTS=-Djava.awt.headless=true >> -Djava.security.edg=file:/dev/./urandom' >> >> ExecStart=/opt/tomcat/bin/startup.sh >> ExecStop=/opt/tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh >> >> User=tomcat >> Group=tomcat >> UMask=0007 >> RestartSec=10 >> Restart=always >> >> [Install] >> WantedBy=multi-user.target >> >> >> This is what I get when I check the journalctl -xe: >> >> tomcat.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT >> PID file found but no matching process was found. Stop aborted. >> tomcat.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1 >> tomcat.service: Unit entered failed state. >> tomcat.service:Failed with result 'exit-code'. >> >> Anyone have any ideas for me on where to start looking for the >> invalidargument? >> >> Thanks, >> >> -Mary >> > > > > -- > *Thanks* > *Niranjan*
