Re: [CentOS] "vsftpd is dead but subsys is locked"

On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 01:44 -0600, Draden wrote:

If someone could give advice - I am running Centos 4 and on it I am running among other things vsftpd. Today I noticed the ftp services wasn't running, when I went to restart it it says it starts, but there is no pid for it. when I do a status on it, it gives a message saying "vsftpd is dead but subsys is locked" I have tried removing the lock file and no joy. I even just resorted to a reboot hoping that would clear the issue and to no avail

Draden

It could be just about anything (full disc, permissions problem, corrupt executable, etc.) that is preventing the service from starting or causing it to crash.

Look at the file /var/log/messages when it fails for an error.