tomcat6 installation on BT5 R3 Gnome 64bit: cannot access localhost:8080

[hannah]

ok this is about installing tomcat6

It did work when I installed it first time (and then only). Since then I could not access localhost:8080 at all. Let me run through what I have done:

My machine:
Linux bt 3.2.6 #1 SMP Fri Feb 17 10:34:20 EST 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Installed tomcat6 with this command:

apt-get install tomcat6 tomcat6-admin tomcat6-examples tomcat6-docs

Installation was ok.

Then I started the service:

root@bt:~# /etc/init.d/tomcat6 start
 * Starting Tomcat servlet engine tomcat6                                                                       [ OK ]

Look at netstat output:

root@bt:~# netstat -tunlp
Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State       PID/Program name
tcp6       0      0 :::8080                 :::*                    LISTEN      6420/java

nmap output of 127.0.0.1

root@bt:~# nmap -sS 127.0.0.1

Starting Nmap 6.01 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2012-10-17 15:48 NZDT
Nmap scan report for localhost (127.0.0.1)
Host is up (0.0000050s latency).
Not shown: 993 closed ports
PORT     STATE SERVICE
80/tcp   open  http
139/tcp  open  netbios-ssn
443/tcp  open  https
445/tcp  open  microsoft-ds
902/tcp  open  iss-realsecure
3001/tcp open  nessus
8080/tcp open  http-proxy

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.29 seconds
root@bt:~#

Now trying to access http://localhost:8080/ and it is timing out.

Funny is that it worked once when I first installed tomcat6 for the very first time I could see "It Works" page with all the infos in it.
Since then I cannot access it anymore.

I have removed the tomcat6 and re-installed but I just cannot aeccess http://localhost:8080/
I have checked my proxy setting and it's set to ignore hosts
127.0.0.0/8

I really do not what else I can possibly do.
Please someone help.

Kind regards

I am a bit desperate at the moment: a bit more info:

root@bt:~# service tomcat6 status
 * Tomcat servlet engine is running with pid 1928
root@bt:~# netstat -nlp | grep 8080
tcp6       0      0 :::8080                 :::*                    LISTEN      1928/java       
root@bt:~# ps -ef | grep tomcat
tomcat6   1928     1  0 16:12 ?        00:00:03 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/bin/java -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/var/lib/tomcat6/conf/logging.properties -Djava.awt.headless=true -Xmx128M -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/usr/share/tomcat6/endorsed -classpath /usr/share/tomcat6/bin/bootstrap.jar -Dcatalina.base=/var/lib/tomcat6 -Dcatalina.home=/usr/share/tomcat6 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/tmp/tomcat6-tmp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start
root      6793  5661  0 16:57 pts/2    00:00:00 grep --color=auto tomcat