[Bug 632554] Re: tomcat fails to start with: /bin/bash already running.

2010-11-12 Thread gerry skerbitz
Here's my comment included as an attached patch. What does it take to actually get this into a release? ** Patch added: "Patch to add -p $CATALINA_PID to the initscript tomcat6 file" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tomcat6/+bug/632554/+attachment/1731835/+files/tomcat6.init.patch

[Bug 632554] Re: tomcat fails to start with: /bin/bash already running.

2010-11-03 Thread gerry skerbitz
The problem is fixed if we add `-p "$CATALINA_PID"` to the start-stop-daemon line in catalina_sh(). Isn't that something we should be able to rely on? {{{ *** tomcat6~2010-10-11 13:21:52.0 -0500 --- tomcat6 2010-11-03 12:19:04.0 -0500 *** *** 152,154

[Bug 632554] Re: tomcat fails to start with: /bin/bash already running.

2010-11-03 Thread gerry skerbitz
I'm struck by this bug because I have the tomcat user doing something else related to tomcat, so it MIGHT actually be logged in. It strikes me as a bad idea to let a startup script create a file in /etc/init.d/. We should find a better way to clarify that it's actually a tomcat instance running

[Bug 363664] Re: xfce4-settings-helper is slow on startup

2009-04-24 Thread gerry skerbitz
I struggled with this today. The friendly folks on irc suggested I check xfce bugzilla to see if the 4.6.1 update would fix this problem. I stumbled on this bug. http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5040 In it the poster discovers that the slowness problem goes away when they 1. Go to Xfc