Hi, I followed installation procedure from wiki:
1. in /etc/default/tomcat added line: CATALINA_OPTS="-DHUDSON_HOME=/home/hudson/ -Xmx1024m"
2. Placed hudson.war in /var/lib/tomcat/webapps and assigned permissions to tomcat:tomcat
3. created dir /home/hudson and assigned permissions to tomcat:tomcat
4. updated /var/lib/tomcat/conf/tomcat-users.xml by adding lines:
<role rolename="admin"/>
<user username="hudson-admin" password="secret" roles="admin"/>
5. updated /var/lib/tomcat/conf/catalina.policy by adding these lines:
grant codeBase "file:/var/lib/tomcat/webapps/hudson/-" {
permission java.security.AllPermission;
};

grant codeBase "file:/home/hudson/-" {
permission java.security.AllPermission;
};

The latest version (1.346) of hudson crashes with:

INFO: Server startup in 47470 ms
17-Feb-2010 16:06:48 org.apache.commons.jelly.expression.jexl.JexlExpression evaluate
WARNING: Caught exception evaluating: h.getCrumbRequestField(). Reason: java.lang.NullPointerException
java.lang.NullPointerException
at hudson.Functions.getCrumbRequestField(Functions.java:1144)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at org.apache.commons.jexl.util.introspection.UberspectImpl$VelMethodImpl.invoke(UberspectImpl.java:258)
at org.apache.commons.jexl.parser.ASTMethod.execute(ASTMethod.java:104)
at org.apache.commons.jexl.parser.ASTReference.execute(ASTReference.java:83)
at org.apache.commons.jexl.parser.ASTReference.value(ASTReference.java:57)
at org.apache.commons.jexl.parser.ASTReferenceExpression.value(ASTReferenceExpression.java:51)
at org.apache.commons.jexl.ExpressionImpl.evaluate(ExpressionImpl.java:80)
at org.apache.commons.jelly.expression.jexl.JexlExpression.evaluate(JexlExpression.java:69)
at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.ExpressionScript.run(ExpressionScript.java:66)
at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.ScriptBlock.run(ScriptBlock.java:95)
at org.apache.commons.jelly.TagSupport.invokeBody(TagSupport.java:186)
at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.StaticTag.doTag(StaticTag.java:65)
at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.StaticTagScript.run(StaticTagScript.java:112)
at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.ScriptBlock.run(ScriptBlock.java:95)
at org.apache.commons.jelly.TagSupport.invokeBody(TagSupport.java:186)
at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.StaticTag.doTag(StaticTag.java:65)
at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.StaticTagScript.run(StaticTagScript.java:112)
at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.ScriptBlock.run(ScriptBlock.java:95)
at org.apache.commons.jelly.TagSupport.invokeBody(TagSupport.java:186)
at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.StaticTag.doTag(StaticTag.java:65)
at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.StaticTagScript.run(StaticTagScript.java:112)
at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.ScriptBlock.run(ScriptBlock.java:95)
at org.apache.commons.jelly.TagSupport.invokeBody(TagSupport.java:186)
at org.apache.commons.jelly.tags.core.JellyTag.doTag(JellyTag.java:45)
at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.TagScript.run(TagScript.java:263)
at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.DynamicTag.doTag(DynamicTag.java:81)
at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.TagScript.run(TagScript.java:263)
at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.ScriptBlock.run(ScriptBlock.java:95)
at org.apache.commons.jelly.TagSupport.invokeBody(TagSupport.java:186)
at org.apache.commons.jelly.tags.core.JellyTag.doTag(JellyTag.java:45)
at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.TagScript.run(TagScript.java:263)
at org.kohsuke.stapler.jelly.DefaultScriptInvoker.invokeScript(DefaultScriptInvoker.java:37)
at org.kohsuke.stapler.jelly.DefaultScriptInvoker.invokeScript(DefaultScriptInvoker.java:27)
at org.kohsuke.stapler.jelly.JellyClassTearOff.serveIndexJelly(JellyClassTearOff.java:43)
at org.kohsuke.stapler.jelly.JellyFacet.handleIndexRequest(JellyFacet.java:83)
at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:508)
at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:435)
at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.service(Stapler.java:123)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at hudson.util.PluginServletFilter$1.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:94)
at hudson.util.PluginServletFilter.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:86)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at hudson.security.csrf.CrumbFilter.doFilter(CrumbFilter.java:47)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at hudson.security.HudsonFilter.doFilter(HudsonFilter.java:162)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:433)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:128)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:568)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:286)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:845)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:583)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:447)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)