This error keeps appearing in catalina.out

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/opt/tomcat/bin/catalina.sh: 1: eval: /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64/bin/java/bin/java: not found

There is an extra /bin/java on the end of the path to java. I tried removing /bin/java from the environment variable for java_home, but it had no effect.

This error gets thrown whenever I try starting tomcat.

Any ideas how to fix this?

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You’re on the right track, those variables should not contain the /bin/java part at the end.

I think the catalina scripts check for 2 environment variables; JRE_HOME and JAVA_HOME. My guess is that it might be using JRE_HOME if you have that set.

Try something this;

export JRE_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64

(and/or change that to JAVA_HOME if JRE_HOME is currently unset… also make sure that path contains a bin directory with the java executable inside it)

If that resolves the issue then you’ll probably need to change that variable wherever it was originally set during startup.

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Thank you.

Dropping the ‘bin/java’ from the end of $JAVA_HOME solved the problem.

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