puppet service wont start - puppet

Question

I have the following code for a small class for Tomcat, The class runs fine but the service at the end of the script doesn't start. any guidance would be great. i dont know why the service wont start.
content of the Tomcat6 class
# Class: tomcat6
#
# This module manages tomcat6
#
# Parameters: none
#
# Actions:
#
# Requires: see Modulefile
#
# Sample Usage:
#
class tomcat6 ( $parentdir = '/usr/share',
$tomcat_version = '6.0.37',
$tomcat_major_version = '6',
$digest_string = '171d255cd60894b29a41684ce0ff93a8',
$tomcat_exe = 'tomcat6/tomcat.erb',
$java_home = '/usr/java/latest',
$jvm_route = 'jvm1',
$shutdown_password = 'SHUTDOWN',
$admin_port = 8005,
$http_port = 8080,
$tomcat_user = 'root',
$tomcat_group = 'root',
$admin_user = 'tomcat',
$admin_password = 'tomcat'
) {
$basedir = "${parentdir}/apache-tomcat-6.0.37"
file {'/installs':
ensure => 'directory',
source => 'puppet:///modules/tomcat6/',
recurse => 'remote',
owner => 'root',
group => 'root',
mode => '0755',
}
exec { 'tomcat_untar':
command => 'tar -zxvf /installs/apache-tomcat-6.0.37.tar.gz -C /usr/share/',
cwd => '/usr/share/',
creates => "/usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.37",
path => ["/bin"],
require => [File["/installs"]]
}
file { "/etc/init.d/tomcat":
ensure => present,
owner => root,
group => root,
mode => 0755,
content => template($tomcat_exe),
require => Exec["tomcat_untar"]
}
service { "tomcat":
ensure => "running",
enable => "true",
require => File["/etc/init.d/tomcat"]
}
}
contents of tomcat.erb
#!/bin/bash
# description: Tomcat Start Stop Restart
# processname: tomcat
# chkconfig: 234 20 80
JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_26
export JAVA_HOME
PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
export PATH
CATALINA_HOME=/usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.37
case $1 in
start)
sh $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh
;;
stop)
sh $CATALINA_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh
;;
restart)
sh $CATALINA_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh
sh $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh
;;
esac
exit 0

Answer 1

Puppet does an /etc/init.d/tomcat status to see if the service is running. If it gets no proper return status if the service is stopped, it will not try to start it.
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/type.html#service
Check out hasstatus.
An alternative is to make Puppet grep through the process table with 'pattern' and 'hasstatus' set to false.