Tomcat service start not working

Chef Infra (archive)
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Hi All,

I’m trying to start tomcat as a service via “notifies” and when the recipe runs I get the below output

==> default: [2015-11-23T18:01:30+05:30] INFO: remote_file[/usr/share/apache-tomcat-8.0.26/webapps/my-app.war] sending start action to service[tomcat] (immediate)
==> default: Recipe: tomcat::install_tomcat
==> default:   * service[tomcat] action start
==> default:  (up to date)

and tomcat does not start.

This is what I have written in my recipe
notifies :start, 'service[tomcat]', :immediately

I have also tried with

service 'tomcat' do action :start end

and this gives the output as below.

==> default: * service[tomcat] action start
==> default:  (up to date)

And does not start tomcat as well

On the other hand,

service 'tomcat' do action :stop end

stops the tomcat instance

Any idea what could be wrong?

–gibu

2

Are you not looking at action :restart ?

The idempotent behavior is: if you notify something to start and it’s already started, do nothing, hence the ‘up to date’ log you get, tomcat is already started, so don’t try to start it again.

3

Well, I have a stop just before that and to test, I had the tomcat service stopped manually as well. Still the start would not work.

I tried with restart and that works, I was also able to start the tomcat service manually.

–gibu

4

Maybe you have another resource earlier in the run starting tomcat ?

Maybe you can make a gist of a run log ?