lots of daemons dead but pid file exists

[kumarlimbu]

Hi everyone,

We recently had problem with our linux server and had to (hard) restart it.
During the restart we found that a lots of services were not able to start
properly like ssh, apache, mysql, xfs etc. which caused the machine not
being able to go to runlevel 5 (no GUI). So we switched to runlevel 3. We
found that when we looked at the status for the usual services we found the
following error:
<service> dead but pid file exists

What could cause an error like this.

I searched through the forums and found that most of the problem with
xserver starting properly has to do with DISK full etc. but nothing was
quite similar to what we had.

If there are anymore information that you guys need to help me, please let
me know.


Thank You,
Kumar
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