As Andreas says, the problem is due to the wrong JRE being installed, but at IIRC openjdk-9-jre-headless was the one installed by default in Ubuntu 16 when the Tomcat 8 package was installed. Perhaps an appropriate fix is to limit range of versions permitted.
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