[tomcat] Tomcat won't stop or restart

The catalina.pid is missing in your case.

This file is located under {your_jira_dir}/work/catalina.pid and it contains the pid of the current instance of jira.

so

ps aux | grep jira
  • find the correct entry
  • Copy the PID of the output and create a file that only contains this PID. - Make sure it can be read and written by the user which runs jira.
  • Try to shutdown jira again.