A minha situação real é uma máquina na AWS onde deu erro ao iniciar o ./catalina.sh jpda start Eis o log extraído do catalina.out:
ubuntu@ip-172-31-20-204:/usr/share/tomcat8/logs$ ls
catalina.out
ubuntu@ip-172-31-20-204:/usr/share/tomcat8/logs$ cat catalina.out
Listening for transport dt_socket at address: 8000
Mar 14, 2018 6:59:57 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.ClassLoaderFactory validateFile
WARNING: Problem with directory [/usr/share/tomcat8/common/classes], exists: [false], isDirectory: [false], canRead: [false]
Mar 14, 2018 6:59:57 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.ClassLoaderFactory validateFile
WARNING: Problem with directory [/usr/share/tomcat8/common], exists: [false], isDirectory: [false], canRead: [false]
Mar 14, 2018 6:59:58 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.ClassLoaderFactory validateFile
WARNING: Problem with directory [/usr/share/tomcat8/server/classes], exists: [false], isDirectory: [false], canRead: [false]
Mar 14, 2018 6:59:58 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.ClassLoaderFactory validateFile
WARNING: Problem with directory [/usr/share/tomcat8/server], exists: [false], isDirectory: [false], canRead: [false]
Mar 14, 2018 6:59:58 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.ClassLoaderFactory validateFile
WARNING: Problem with directory [/usr/share/tomcat8/shared/classes], exists: [false], isDirectory: [false], canRead: [false]
Mar 14, 2018 6:59:58 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.ClassLoaderFactory validateFile
WARNING: Problem with directory [/usr/share/tomcat8/shared], exists: [false], isDirectory: [false], canRead: [false]
Mar 14, 2018 6:59:58 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
WARNING: Unable to load server configuration from [/usr/share/tomcat8/conf/server.xml]
Mar 14, 2018 6:59:58 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
WARNING: Unable to load server configuration from [/usr/share/tomcat8/conf/server.xml]
Mar 14, 2018 6:59:58 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
SEVERE: Cannot start server. Server instance is not configured.
ubuntu@ip-172-31-20-204:/usr/share/tomcat8/logs$O que falta para que o mesmo levante o tomcat?
