Service tomcat8 failed to start by using service tomcat8 start
<p>I'm using Vagrant to deploy to Ubuntu Linux and try to start a <code>tomcat8</code> service. </p>

<p>Tomcat 8 was installed by <code>apt-get install tomcat8</code>.</p>

<p>When using the <code>service tomcat8 start</code> command, I got the following error:</p>

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  <p>Job for tomcat8.service failed. See "systemctl status tomcat8.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.</p>
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<p>Then I tracked the <code>systemctl status tomcat8.service</code>, found that:</p>

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  <p>? tomcat8.service - LSB: Start Tomcat.
    Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/tomcat8)<br>
    Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2016-03-28 09:44:17 GMT; 5s ago<br>
    Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)<br>
   Process: 884 ExecStop=/etc/init.d/tomcat8 stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)<br>
   Process: 1312 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/tomcat8 start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)<br>
  Mar 28 09:44:12 vagrant-ubuntu-trusty systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Start Tomcat....<br>
  Mar 28 09:44:12 vagrant-ubuntu-trusty tomcat8[1312]: * Starting Tomcat servlet engine tomcat8<br>
  Mar 28 09:44:17 vagrant-ubuntu-trusty tomcat8[1312]: ...fail!<br>
  Mar 28 09:44:17 vagrant-ubuntu-trusty systemd[1]: tomcat8.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1<br>
  Mar 28 09:44:17 vagrant-ubuntu-trusty systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Start Tomcat..<br>
  Mar 28 09:44:17 vagrant-ubuntu-trusty systemd[1]: Unit tomcat8.service entered failed state.<br>
  Mar 28 09:44:17 vagrant-ubuntu-trusty systemd[1]: tomcat8.service failed.</p>
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<p>I'm unsure of how to proceed to get my Tomcat 8 service running.</p>