Trying to restart innd after power outage but get "innd dead but subsys locked"

[Russ Allbery]

Jeffrey Davis <jpdavis at utmb.edu> writes:

> Here is an excerpt from a  shell session

> [root]# /etc/init.d/innd start
> Starting INND system:                                      [  OK  ]
> [root]# /etc/init.d/innd status
> innd dead but subsys locked

> I have searched dejanews and the inn-workers archives for the solution but
> to no avail.

> I began to think that perhaps there was a stuck lockfile or .pid file but
> alas, no such luck.

> Any ideas?

Usually that means that INN is dying as soon as it's started.  Look in the
logs to see why it's dying.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>