[Spacewalk-list] Tomcat not starting

[Tomas Lestach]

> Hi,
> Yesterday I kickstarted a machine with spacewalk, and it was working
> fine , I did a few network and cobbler(only host ip addr.) changes
> and now I cannot see tomcat started by spacewalk. Its not in
> processes list, not the catalina.out comes up as earlier. I tried to
> start it manually but I cannot find its binary to start.

Do you have tomcat installed?
# rpm -qa 'tomcat*'
Didn't you uninstall it by chance?
# grep tomcat /var/log/yum.log 

> Due to this
> the spacewalk UI is throwing up "503 Service Temporarily
> Unavailable".
> I restarted the Spacewalk and system , network, restored the previous
> network settings ,still in vain.
> This is output of "spacewalk-service restart"
> 
> [root at space-walk ~]# spacewalk-service restart
> Shutting down spacewalk services...
> Stopping cobbler daemon: [ OK ]
> Stopping rhn-search...
> Stopped rhn-search.
> Shutting down osa-dispatcher: [ OK ]
> Stopping httpd: [ OK ]
> Terminating jabberd processes ...
> Stopping s2s: [ OK ]
> Stopping c2s: [ OK ]
> Stopping sm: [ OK ]
> Stopping router: [ OK ]
> Stopping postgresql service: [ OK ]
> Done.
> Starting spacewalk services...
> Starting postgresql service: [ OK ]
> Initializing jabberd processes ...
> Starting router: [ OK ]
> Starting sm: [ OK ]
> Starting c2s: [ OK ]
> Starting s2s: [ OK ]
> Starting httpd: [ OK ]
> Starting osa-dispatcher: [ OK ]
> Starting rhn-search...
> Starting cobbler daemon: [ OK ]
> Done.

Yes, you're missing tomcat and taskomatic service as well.

Do you have spacewalk-java installed?
# rpm -qa 'spacewalk-java*' spacewalk-taskomatic


Regards,
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Tomas Lestach
Red Hat Satellite Engineering, Red Hat