probable broken tomcat6 package on wheezy

[John Naggets <hostingnuggets@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Since today the tomcat6 package on Debian 7.11 seems to be broken as
the tomcat6 service does not start anymore. Here is the relevant
output of catalina.out:

Dec 17, 2016 6:35:15 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.ClassLoaderFactory
validateFile
WARNING: Problem with directory [/usr/share/tomcat6/server/classes],
exists: [false], isDirectory: [false], canRead: [false]
Dec 17, 2016 6:35:15 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.ClassLoaderFactory
validateFile
WARNING: Problem with directory [/usr/share/tomcat6/server], exists:
[false], isDirectory: [false], canRead: [false]
Dec 17, 2016 6:35:15 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.ClassLoaderFactory
validateFile
WARNING: Problem with directory [/usr/share/tomcat6/shared/classes],
exists: [false], isDirectory: [false], canRead: [false]
Dec 17, 2016 6:35:15 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.ClassLoaderFactory
validateFile
WARNING: Problem with directory [/usr/share/tomcat6/shared], exists:
[false], isDirectory: [false], canRead: [false]
Dec 17, 2016 6:35:16 AM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol init
INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
Dec 17, 2016 6:35:16 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 438 ms
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:289)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:414)
Caused by: java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
    at org.apache.catalina.core.NamingContextListener.lifecycleEvent(NamingContextListener.java:262)
    at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:142)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:752)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:595)
    ... 6 more
Caused by: java.util.MissingResourceException: Can't find bundle for
base name org.apache.naming.factory.LocalStrings, locale en_US
    at java.util.ResourceBundle.throwMissingResourceException(ResourceBundle.java:1499)
    at java.util.ResourceBundle.getBundleImpl(ResourceBundle.java:1322)
    at java.util.ResourceBundle.getBundle(ResourceBundle.java:721)
    at org.apache.naming.StringManager.<init>(StringManager.java:68)
    at org.apache.naming.StringManager.getManager(StringManager.java:213)
    at org.apache.naming.factory.ResourceLinkFactory.<clinit>(ResourceLinkFactory.java:44)
    ... 10 more

Using the following tomcat:

$ dpkg -l|grep tomcat
ii  libtomcat6-java                    6.0.45+dfsg-1~deb7u4
all          Servlet and JSP engine -- core libraries
ii  tomcat6                            6.0.45+dfsg-1~deb7u4
all          Servlet and JSP engine
ii  tomcat6-common                     6.0.45+dfsg-1~deb7u4
all          Servlet and JSP engine -- common files

and JRE:

dpkg -l|grep jre
ii  default-jre-headless               1:1.7-47+deb7u2
amd64        Standard Java or Java compatible Runtime (headless)
ii  openjdk-7-jre-headless:amd64       7u111-2.6.7-2~deb7u1
amd64        OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspot JIT (headless)

The following package updates have been performed this early morning
and I suspect one of these following packages to be broken:

libicu-dev libicu48 libservlet2.5-java libtomcat6-java  tomcat6
tomcat6-admin tomcat6-common

Any ideas? I can't find anything yet on any debian mailing lists...

Best regards
H.N.