[mythtv-users] Trouble with monit

Harry Devine lifter89 at comcast.net
Sun May 11 01:52:13 UTC 2008


Nick Morrott wrote:
> On 11/05/2008, Harry Devine <lifter89 at comcast.net> wrote:
>   
>> Nick Morrott wrote:
>>  > On 10/05/2008, Harry Devine <lifter89 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>  >
>>  >> I restarted the backend
>>  >>  fine, but the monit process won't start.  I start it and it says it
>>  >>  started, but when I immediately check it with "service monit status" it
>>  >>  says it's dead with subsys locked.
>>  >>
>>  >
>>  > This is usually due to a service's stale pidfile which was left behind
>>  > when the process aborted. Check /var/run/ for monit's pidfile, delete
>>  > it, and then restart the monit service.
>>  >
>>  >
>>
>> I looked but there's no pidfile (I looked for monit.pid).  It still says
>>  "monit dead but subsys locked" after I start it and check its status.
>>  Could it be under another pidfile name?
>>     
>
> Check for (and delete) /var/lock/subsys/monit.
>
>   
No good.  I found it, deleted it, and as soon as I start the service, it 
immediately dies.  Maybe I have to re-install it?  It just won't run at 
all for some reason.

Thanks,
Harry



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