Re: [Dhis2-users] [Dhis2-devs] heads up on tomcat versions and dhis

2017-02-01 Thread Bob Jolliffe
It "should" work indeed. I haven't tested out downgrading the tomcat related packages yet. It might not be so straightforward. Also of course it is a bit of a concern as all of the tomcat upgrades on a "normally" configured ubuntu system would be security upgrades. So we would be asking users t

Re: [Dhis2-users] [Dhis2-devs] heads up on tomcat versions and dhis

2017-02-01 Thread Jason Pickering
Lars had advised me this would not be easy, as this fix would need to be made in several apps. I did not have time to figure out exactly which Tomcat package would work, but your approach sounds reasonable to me. We took a temporary route and used one we knew would work until the upgrade to at lea

Re: [Dhis2-users] [Dhis2-devs] heads up on tomcat versions and dhis

2017-02-01 Thread Bob Jolliffe
Thanks Jason. To make matters more complicated it looks like ubuntu maintains its own patch release numbering of tomcat. So for example it looks like the problem first raised in Zim after upgrading 7.0.52-1ubuntu0.7 to 7.0.52-1ubuntu0.8. They can try to rewind that upgrade to see if good behavio

Re: [Dhis2-users] [Dhis2-devs] heads up on tomcat versions and dhis

2017-02-01 Thread Jason Pickering
Hi Bob, https://archive.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-8/v8.0.35/ is known to work in this situation for me. Lars suggested this version and it worked for us. We had the exact same thing happen on another instance, which basically "broke" dhis2-tools, so for the time being, we are using this spec