Ik heb een snapshot terug gezet en vervolgens apt-get install tomcat8 gedraaid. Dat lijkt goed te gaan maar er volgen een aantal foutmeldingen.
root@srv016:~# apt-get update
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http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
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http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
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http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
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http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
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http://apt.puppetlabs.com xenial InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
root@srv016:~# apt-get install tomcat8
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
libtomcat8-java tomcat8-common
Suggested packages:
libtcnative-1 tomcat8-admin tomcat8-docs tomcat8-examples tomcat8-user
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libtomcat8-java tomcat8 tomcat8-common
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded.
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http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 libtomcat8-java all 8.0.32-1ubuntu1.9 [4,658 kB]
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http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 tomcat8-common all 8.0.32-1ubuntu1.9 [53.2 kB]
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http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 tomcat8 all 8.0.32-1ubuntu1.9 [42.4 kB]
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Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously unselected package libtomcat8-java.
(Reading database ... 138279 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libtomcat8-java_8.0.32-1ubuntu1.9_all.deb ...
Unpacking libtomcat8-java (8.0.32-1ubuntu1.9) ...
Selecting previously unselected package tomcat8-common.
Preparing to unpack .../tomcat8-common_8.0.32-1ubuntu1.9_all.deb ...
Unpacking tomcat8-common (8.0.32-1ubuntu1.9) ...
Selecting previously unselected package tomcat8.
Preparing to unpack .../tomcat8_8.0.32-1ubuntu1.9_all.deb ...
Unpacking tomcat8 (8.0.32-1ubuntu1.9) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19.1) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (229-4ubuntu21.21) ...
Setting up libtomcat8-java (8.0.32-1ubuntu1.9) ...
Setting up tomcat8-common (8.0.32-1ubuntu1.9) ...
Setting up tomcat8 (8.0.32-1ubuntu1.9) ...
Creating config file /etc/default/tomcat8 with new version
Adding system user `tomcat8' (UID 117) ...
Adding new user `tomcat8' (UID 117) with group `tomcat8' ...
Not creating home directory `/usr/share/tomcat8'.
Creating config file /etc/logrotate.d/tomcat8 with new version
Job for tomcat8.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status tomcat8.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript tomcat8, action "start" failed.
● tomcat8.service - LSB: Start Tomcat.
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/tomcat8; bad; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2019-07-16 15:06:20 CEST; 4ms ago
Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(

Process: 34835 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/tomcat8 start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Jul 16 15:06:15 srv016 systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Start Tomcat....
Jul 16 15:06:15 srv016 tomcat8[34835]: * Starting Tomcat servlet engine tomcat8
Jul 16 15:06:20 srv016 tomcat8[34835]: ...fail!
Jul 16 15:06:20 srv016 systemd[1]: tomcat8.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
Jul 16 15:06:20 srv016 systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Start Tomcat..
Jul 16 15:06:20 srv016 systemd[1]: tomcat8.service: Unit entered failed state.
Jul 16 15:06:20 srv016 systemd[1]: tomcat8.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
dpkg: error processing package tomcat8 (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19.1) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (229-4ubuntu21.21) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
tomcat8
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)