Amavisd does not start
Jay Cliburn
jacliburn at bellsouth.net
Thu Jul 20 18:46:26 UTC 2006
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 02:38:01PM +0100, Chris Jones wrote:
> Justin Willmert wrote:
> >Chris Jones wrote:
> >>Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> >>>Le mercredi 19 juillet 2006 à 21:08 +0100, Chris Jones a écrit :
> >>>
> >>>>I have chosen to install amavis-new with my FC5 installation. This
> >>>>also loads clamav. However, when I look at the amavis service, I
> >>>>get the response "amavisd dead but subsys locked". I have checked
> >>>>everything I can think of, but cannot get amavisd to start. Does
> >>>>anyone here have any suggestions?
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>1. remove the dangling lock
> >>>2. start amavis
> >>>3. take a peek in /var/log/maillog
> >>>
> >>I looked for the dangling lock. However, I can find nothing. I would
> >>expect to find it (with amavisd running) at /var/run/amavisd/ along
> >>with the pid file, but there is nothing. Where else should I look?
> >>
> >Try looking in /var/lock/subsys.
> I have tried that. I removed the hanging lock, which when checked,
> stopped amavisd. However, on starting amavisd, apparently successfully,
> after checking the status, amavisd was again dead but subsys locked.
>
> I seem to be going around in circles. HOW do I correct this???
Perhaps you're being hit by these seemingly related bugs.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=199014
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=199044
Jay
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