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I am running centos 2.6.9-55.0.2.EL. When I tried to start httpd it gives me the error https dead but subsys locked. I fount the there is no pid file on /var/run. What should i do. Please hel

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Run killall command:
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error_log gives me this error.

[Wed Jul 25 19:36:21 2007] [error] (2No space left on device: could not create /etc/httpd/run/httpd.pid
[Wed Jul 25 19:36:21 2007] [error] httpd: could not log pid to file /etc/httpd/run/httpd.pid
[Thu Jul 26 08:57:24 2007] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)
[Thu Jul 26 08:57:24 2007] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Thu Jul 26 08:57:24 2007] [notice] Digest: done
[Thu Jul 26 08:57:24 2007] [notice] LDAP: Built with OpenLDAP LDAP SDK
[Thu Jul 26 08:57:24 2007] [notice] LDAP: SSL support unavailable
[Thu Jul 26 08:57:24 2007] [notice] mod_python: Creating 4 session mutexes based on 256 max processes and 0 max threads.
[Thu Jul 26 08:57:25 2007] [error] (2No space left on device: could not create /etc/httpd/run/httpd.pid
[Thu Jul 26 08:57:25 2007] [error] httpd: could not log pid to file /etc/httpd/run/httpd.pid

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You are out of disk space, either delete files or add more disk space
[Wed Jul 25 19:36:21 2007] [error] (2No space left on device: could not create /etc/httpd/run/httpd.pid

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Thanks for reply but I have still 23% space left on /var. any suggestion

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 10104268 499072 9091924 6% /
none 509320 0 509320 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda6 497829 10547 461580 3% /tmp
/dev/hda2 25197252 1778232 22139044 8% /usr
/dev/hda5 1035660 750192 232860 77% /var

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Is it Redhat Linux?

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Yes it is.

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Thanks everyone for help. I removed the httpd from /var/lock/subsys then it works.

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Few days back...Same problem:-
this is Disk spaces uses

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 10104268 355024 9235972 4% /
none 509320 0 509320 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda6 497829 10547 461580 3% /tmp
/dev/hda2 25197252 1778232 22139044 8% /usr
/dev/hda5 1035660 770012 213040 79% /var

and inside the /var

total 180
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 18 2007 account
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 May 10 2003 alchemist
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 21 04:02 cache
drwxr-xr-x 3 netdump netdump 4096 May 3 05:02 crash
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 10 2003 db
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 10 2003 empty
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 21 12:24 htb.init
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Jun 16 12:20 lib
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 22 2005 local
drwxrwxr-x 6 root lock 4096 Jul 21 04:02 lock
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Jul 29 10:04 log
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 May 11 2003 lost+found
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 May 10 2003 mail -> spool/mail
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Jun 17 04:02 man
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jul 30 14:38 net-snmp
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 22 2005 nis
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 22 2005 opt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 22 2005 preserve
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 Jul 30 15:40 run
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 May 10 2003 spool
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 3 23:16 systemtap
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Jul 21 04:19 tmp
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2005 tux
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 27 13:01 usermin
drwx------ 2 root bin 4096 Jun 19 20:05 webmin
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 27 10:55 www
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 3 07:44 yp
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 May 5 18:53 yum

this is the disk spaces uses by services under the /var directory.

When I tryed to start the httpd,crond I got no space left on Devices error.
please help

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What is the output of mount command? Is your /var is read only due to error? I suggest you take filesystem off line and run fsck on it.

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