Problem with deleting tomcat6/work directory when upgrading

Hi,

I just tried upgrading from 1.9.0 to 1.10.0 on an Ubuntu server and deleted the work directory under tomcat6 as mentioned in the instructions.

When trying to restart tomcat6 service I encountered an error saying it couldn't create the work directory so I manually created it and tomcat started.

When browed to the page I get a long error but the part that jumped out was:
java.io.FileNotFoundException: /var/lib/tomcat6/work/Catalina/localhost/_/org/apache/jsp/index_jsp.java (No such file or directory)

In this case I'll probably just start from scratch but I'm wondering if I did something wrong or if the instructions are wrong?

Thanks,
Joel.

Could it be a permissions issue?

I have implemented sudo chown tomcat6:adm tomcat6/ to make the tomcat6 user owner of the entire tomcat6 directory.

Joel.

Yes, make sure the permissions are set such that the account under which Tomcat runs can write into those directories.