I had the same problem and this worked for me.
Try this:
Go to the your path-to-tomcat/bin in the terminal
Then execute the command below:
chmod +x *.sh
Then run tomcat using ./startup.sh
I had the same problem and this worked for me.
Try this:
Go to the your path-to-tomcat/bin in the terminal
Then execute the command below:
chmod +x *.sh
Then run tomcat using ./startup.sh