Bug#775396: tomcat8 not starting after fresh install

2015-01-15 Thread Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
Package: tomcat8 Version: 8.0.14-1 Severity: normal Dear maintainer, I installed tomcat8 from testing using aptitude. The package itself failed to bring up the tomcat service. Muanually calling 'service tomcat8 start' also fails. The only log reference I can found is at

Bug#775396: tomcat8 not starting after fresh install

2015-01-15 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Hi Arturo, The message Unsupported major.minor version 51.0 means you are running an application intended for a more recent version of Java. Here Tomcat 8 requires Java 7 and you are probably running Java 6 on your system. Installing the openjdk-7-jre-headless package should fix this issue.