Geoserver failed to start after OS (Debian) update

GeoServer GeoServer User
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I have been running geoserver on debian11 (bullseye) using tomcat 9, openjdk.

After a recent OS update geoserver failed to start.

Due to operational reasons I am not in the position to investigate further, other that to state

apt-mark showhold

libtomcat9-java

openjdk-11-jre

tomcat9

tomcat9-admin

tomcat9-common

tomcat9-docs

tomcat9-examples

tomcat9-user

allowed an OS update, with the geoserver service function correctly.

To clarify this was not an upgrade to bookworm (12)

The geoserver version is

  • GeoServer Version
    2.25.3
  • Git Revision
    00835315c4cc1743ceee114f20d0e4e86cc181cf
  • Build Date
    19-Jul-2024 12:30
  • GeoTools Version
    31.3 (rev 5c48493594b3ba5197f94cfe3cce7073dc37a508)
  • GeoWebCache Version
    1.25-SNAPSHOT (rev 70b38c615f940b311e4756224a66013d6d84bb81/70b38c615f940b311e4756224a66013d6d84bb81)

I hope this is of use.

2

You posted this to generate instead of GeoServer - users channel. I have moved this to geoserver/users.

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3

That is not enough information to work with sadly. You have described your
environment but not the failure; and I do not have a linux machine to be
informed about … debian11.

If you look at the logs when tomcat starts geoserver it should say
something.

As an example a common failure is in ability to read the file system
location where the GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR is located. Tomcat can be configured
to sandbox file system access or something. Perhaps that was the default
when you updated?

Please have a look at the logs and report back why geoserver failed to
start - what the first error or exception was. After the first error there
are usually more (if it has problems starting up it will also have problems
shutting down).

4

Finally reply works

To get the logs I would have to make the service unavailable, restore the original VM, ~ 1Tb, get the logs, restore the modified (working) VM. this is not feasible.

To get the system up post the OS upgrade I initiated the following holds
apt-mark showhold
libtomcat9-java
openjdk-11-jre
tomcat9
tomcat9-admin
tomcat9-common
tomcat9-docs
tomcat9-examples
tomcat9-user

This in my opinion narrows the issue down to one of the held items.
OK, docs, examples may not be relavent, but I needed to get it working so I went for the full option