httpd and dovecot service start fails
Harold Hallikainen
harold at hallikainen.com
Mon Feb 6 05:01:30 UTC 2006
> On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 01:53:38PM -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote:
>> > On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 09:43:02PM -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote:
>> >> I'm installing FC4 on an old machine after having success on a new
machine. I did a new install (instead of update) and modified the
>> same
>> >> configs I modified on the new machine. Here's the latest problem.
>> This
>> >> is
>> >> getting real close to working correctly!
>> >>
>> >> If I do /sbin/service httpd restart or /sbin/service dovecot
restart,
>> >> the
>> >> restart fails (the stop fails too since they did not start properly
during
>> >> boot). However, if I do /usr/sbin/httpd or /usr/sbin/dovecot , they
>> both
>> >> seem to run fine. How can I find out what's going wrong during boot
>> or
>> >> restart that's causing these to not run? I've looked in the httpd
>> logs
>> >> and
>> >> the messages log and found nothing.
>> >
>> > Look again. For httpd, look in /var/log/httpd/error_log. For
dovecot, look in /var/log/maillog. If a service isn't starting
properly, there _must_ be some information either on the screen or in
a log.
>> >
>> I left httpd running last night by manually starting it. I then did a
service httpd restart this afternoon. Here's the restart:
>> [root at kauko sbin]# ./service httpd restart
>> Stopping httpd: [ OK ]
Starting httpd: [FAILED]
[root at kauko sbin]#
>> And here's the error_log:
>> [Sun Feb 05 04:02:20 2006] [notice] Digest: generating secret for
digest
>> authentication ...
>> [Sun Feb 05 04:02:20 2006] [notice] Digest: done
>> [Sun Feb 05 04:02:20 2006] [notice] LDAP: Built with OpenLDAP LDAP SDK
[Sun Feb 05 04:02:20 2006] [notice] LDAP: SSL support unavailable [Sun
Feb 05 04:02:22 2006] [notice] mod_python: Creating 4 session mutexes
>> based on 150 max processes and 0 max threads.
>> [Sun Feb 05 04:02:23 2006] [notice] Apache/2.0.54 (Fedora) configured
--
>> resuming normal operations
>> [Sun Feb 05 13:49:44 2006] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
Waiting for data... (interrupt to abort)
>> The 13:49:44 appeared when I did the restart. Nothing appeared after
that...
>> THANKS!
>> Harold
>
> Hmm. This does not compute. Try to start it again, and very soon
after, do this:
>
> cd /var/log
> ls -lrt
>
> The last log touched will be at the bottom of the list. My guess is it
will be messages. Check that. Also check
> /var/log/httpd/access_log. It must be leaving a suicide note somewhere.
>
OK, here it is...
[root at kauko squirrelmail]# /sbin/service httpd restart
Stopping httpd: [ OK ]
Starting httpd: [FAILED]
[root at kauko squirrelmail]# cd /var
[root at kauko var]# ls -lrt
total 204
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 28 2005 racoon
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Apr 20 2005 tux
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 20 2005 cvs
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 22 2005 preserve
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 22 2005 opt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 22 2005 nis
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 22 2005 local
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 7 18:17 mail -> spool/mail
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 7 18:24 db
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 7 18:24 account
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 7 18:25 empty
drwxr-x--- 5 root named 4096 Jan 7 20:30 named
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 7 20:39 ftp
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 7 20:52 kerberos
drwxr-xr-x 5 netdump netdump 4096 Jan 7 20:52 crash
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 7 20:53 yp
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Jan 7 22:30 cache
drwxr-xr-x 2 pcap pcap 4096 Jan 7 22:44 arpwatch
drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Jan 7 22:52 spool
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Jan 7 22:52 www
drwxr-xr-x 35 root root 4096 Jan 8 14:17 lib
drwxrwxr-x 8 root lock 4096 Feb 5 18:16 lock
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Feb 5 18:17 log
drwxrwx--T 2 root gdm 4096 Feb 5 18:17 gdm
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Feb 5 18:28 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 30 root root 4096 Feb 5 20:55 run
[root at kauko var]#
I ran the restart at 20:55. Looking in run, I see this:
[root at kauko var]# cd run
[root at kauko run]# ls -lrt
total 412
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 2 2004 ppp
drwxr-xr-x 2 radvd radvd 4096 Feb 25 2005 radvd
drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 4096 Mar 7 2005 mailman
drwxr-xr-x 2 pvm pvm 4096 Mar 8 2005 pvm3
drwxrwx--x 2 quagga quagga 4096 Apr 4 2005 quagga
drwxr-x--- 2 news news 4096 Apr 7 2005 news
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 13 2005 saslauthd
drwx------ 2 radiusd radiusd 4096 Apr 14 2005 radiusd
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Apr 27 2005 pluto
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 2 2005 winbindd
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 May 16 2005 mdmpd
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 May 16 2005 mdadm
drwxrwx--- 2 named named 4096 May 17 2005 named
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 May 18 2005 iptraf
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 May 23 2005 usb
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 May 25 2005 netreport
drwxrwxr-x 2 root screen 4096 May 27 2005 screen
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 30 2005 nscd
drwx------ 4 root root 4096 Jan 8 14:52 sudo
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 4 16:53 ptal-printd
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 4 16:53 ptal-mlcd
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 4 16:59 console
-rw------- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 syslogd.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 rpcuser rpcuser 5 Feb 5 18:16 rpc.statd.pid
-rw------- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 klogd.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 irqbalance.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 auditd.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 nifd.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 nobody root 5 Feb 5 18:16 mDNSResponder.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 xinetd.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 sshd.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 cupsd.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 Feb 5 18:16 ntpd.pid
drwxr-xr-x 2 mysql mysql 4096 Feb 5 18:16 mysqld
-rw------- 1 root smmsp 33 Feb 5 18:16 sendmail.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 smmsp smmsp 50 Feb 5 18:16 sm-client.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 gpm.pid
drwxr-xr-x 3 iiimd iiimd 4096 Feb 5 18:16 iiim
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 crond.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6 Feb 5 18:16 xfs.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 smbd.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 nmbd.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 messagebus.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 haldaemon.pid
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 5 18:16 dbus
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 cups-config-daemon.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:16 atd.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Feb 5 18:17 gdm.pid
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 4608 Feb 5 18:17 utmp
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Feb 5 18:20 dovecot
drwxr-x--- 2 root dovecot 4096 Feb 5 18:20 dovecot-login
[root at kauko run]#
So.... I don't see any log entry... Ideas?
THANKS!
Harold
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