httpd and dovecot service start fails
Bob McClure Jr
bob at bobcatos.com
Mon Feb 6 16:41:52 UTC 2006
> On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 07:54:20AM -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote:
>
> > 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, doing ls -lrt on the right directory, I get:
>
> [root at kauko log]# pwd
> /var/log
> [root at kauko log]# date
> Mon Feb 6 07:46:39 PST 2006
> [root at kauko log]# /sbin/service httpd restart
> Stopping httpd: [FAILED]
> Starting httpd: [FAILED]
> [root at kauko log]# ls -lrt
> total 5152
> drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Nov 2 2004 ppp
> drwxr-xr-x 2 privoxy privoxy 4096 Mar 2 2005 privoxy
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 5 2005 fax
> drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 4096 Mar 7 2005 mailman
> drwxr-xr-x 2 canna canna 4096 Mar 7 2005 canna
> drwxrwx--- 2 quagga quagga 4096 Apr 4 2005 quagga
> drwx--S--- 2 amanda disk 4096 Apr 22 2005 amanda
> drwxr-xr-x 2 tomcat tomcat 4096 May 10 2005 tomcat5
> drwxr-x--- 2 squid squid 4096 May 16 2005 squid
> drwxr-xr-x 2 iiimd iiimd 4096 May 23 2005 iiim
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 27 2005 vbox
> -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 7 18:21 spooler.4
> -rw------- 1 root utmp 0 Jan 7 18:21 btmp.1
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 7 18:25 mail
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 72220 Jan 7 20:29 scrollkeeper.log
> -rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql 0 Jan 7 20:51 mysqld.log.4
> drwxr-xr-x 3 news news 4096 Jan 7 22:14 news
> drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jan 7 22:18 iptraf
> drwxr-xr-x 2 uucp uucp 4096 Jan 7 22:18 uucp
> -rw------- 1 root root 39790 Jan 7 22:58 anaconda.xlog
> -rw------- 1 root root 38944 Jan 7 22:58 anaconda.syslog
> -rw------- 1 root root 15832 Jan 7 22:58 anaconda.log
> -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 8 14:17 boot.log.4
> drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 Jan 8 14:17 audit
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 55878 Jan 11 04:02 rpmpkgs.4
> -rw------- 1 root root 4068 Jan 15 11:13 secure.4
> -rw------- 1 root root 6813 Jan 15 12:19 maillog.4
> -rw------- 1 root root 186559 Jan 15 12:19 cron.4
> -rw------- 1 root root 467643 Jan 15 12:19 messages.4
> -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 15 12:19 spooler.3
> -rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql 0 Jan 15 12:19 mysqld.log.3
> -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 15 12:19 boot.log.3
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 55878 Jan 21 04:02 rpmpkgs.3
> -rw------- 1 root root 1327 Jan 21 22:35 secure.3
> -rw------- 1 root root 567926 Jan 22 04:02 messages.3
> -rw------- 1 root root 8451 Jan 22 04:02 maillog.3
> -rw------- 1 root root 376146 Jan 22 04:02 cron.3
> -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 22 04:02 spooler.2
> -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 22 04:02 secure.2
> -rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql 0 Jan 22 04:02 mysqld.log.2
> -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 22 04:02 boot.log.2
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 56543 Jan 28 04:02 rpmpkgs.2
> -rw------- 1 root root 517218 Jan 29 04:02 messages.2
> -rw------- 1 root root 6096 Jan 29 04:02 maillog.2
> -rw------- 1 root root 395521 Jan 29 04:02 cron.2
> -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 29 04:02 spooler.1
> -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 29 04:02 boot.log.1
> -rw-r----- 1 root root 2300 Jan 29 17:47 acpid
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 165888 Jan 29 18:01 wtmp.1
> drwx------ 3 radiusd radiusd 4096 Feb 1 04:02 radius
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 56543 Feb 4 04:02 rpmpkgs.1
> -rw------- 1 root root 2260 Feb 4 22:10 secure.1
> -rw------- 1 root root 632534 Feb 5 04:02 messages.1
> -rw------- 1 root root 15036 Feb 5 04:02 maillog.1
> -rw------- 1 root root 395130 Feb 5 04:02 cron.1
> drwxr-xr-x 2 lp sys 4096 Feb 5 04:02 cups
> -rw------- 1 root root 0 Feb 5 04:02 spooler
> drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Feb 5 04:02 httpd
> -rw------- 1 root root 0 Feb 5 04:02 boot.log
> -rw------- 1 root utmp 384 Feb 5 17:57 btmp
> -rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql 3440 Feb 5 18:10 mysqld.log.1
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46138 Feb 5 18:12 Xorg.0.log.old
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11655 Feb 5 18:16 dmesg
> -rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql 757 Feb 5 18:16 mysqld.log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 676 Feb 5 18:17 sshblacklisting
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 5 18:17 gdm
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46138 Feb 5 18:17 Xorg.0.log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 225 Feb 5 18:28 yum.log
> drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Feb 5 21:32 samba
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 6 00:00 sa
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 67742 Feb 6 04:04 prelink.log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 56561 Feb 6 04:05 rpmpkgs
> -rw------- 1 root root 5001 Feb 6 04:54 maillog
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 76032 Feb 6 07:40 wtmp
> -rw------- 1 root root 1511 Feb 6 07:40 secure
> -r-------- 1 root root 19136220 Feb 6 07:40 lastlog
> -rw------- 1 root root 65638 Feb 6 07:45 cron
> -rw------- 1 root root 130754 Feb 6 07:45 messages
> [root at kauko log]#
>
>
> It looks like there were entries in messages and cron. Here's the last few
> lines of messages:
>
> Feb 6 07:40:52 kauko sshd(pam_unix)[15144]: session opened for user root
> by root(uid=0)
> Feb 6 07:45:01 kauko crond(pam_unix)[15256]: session opened for user root
> by (uid=0)
> Feb 6 07:45:02 kauko crond(pam_unix)[15256]: session closed for user root
> Feb 6 07:50:01 kauko crond(pam_unix)[15320]: session opened for user root
> by (uid=0)
> Feb 6 07:50:01 kauko crond(pam_unix)[15321]: session opened for user root
> by (uid=0)
> Feb 6 07:50:01 kauko crond(pam_unix)[15321]: session closed for user root
> Feb 6 07:50:02 kauko crond(pam_unix)[15320]: session closed for user root
>
> and cron
>
> Feb 6 07:40:01 kauko crond[15134]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib/sa/sa1 1 1)
> Feb 6 07:45:01 kauko crond[15257]: (root) CMD (/usr/bin/mrtg
> /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg --lock-file /var/lock/mrtg/mrtg_l --confcache
> -file /var/lib/mrtg/mrtg.ok)
> Feb 6 07:50:01 kauko crond[15322]: (root) CMD (/usr/bin/mrtg
> /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg --lock-file /var/lock/mrtg/mrtg_l --confcache
> -file /var/lib/mrtg/mrtg.ok)
> Feb 6 07:50:01 kauko crond[15323]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib/sa/sa1 1 1)
>
>
> I don't see anything related to the httpd restart... More ideas?
I give up. Maybe when Rick Stevens gets his morning coffee, he'll
have some obvious solution that we've all missed.
> THANKS!!!
>
> Harold
Cheers,
--
Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
bob at bobcatos.com http://www.bobcatos.com
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