puppet dead but pid file exists

[Spriya]

Hi,

I am having an issue when restarting puppetmaster.

$service puppetmaster status

puppet dead but pid file exists

Let me know what might be the issue.

[John Kennedy]

How are you stopping Puppetmaster? If you are not gracefully shutting puppetmaster down then the PID file will not be deleted.

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[Spriya]

Hi John

This is the way i am doing:
service puppetmaster stop
Stopping puppetmaster:                                     [FAILED]
[root@cluster2 puppet]# service puppetmaster start
Starting puppetmaster:                                     [  OK  ]
[root@cluster2 puppet]# service puppetmaster status

puppet dead but pid file exists


Let me know

[Brian Wilkins]

It probably died (either ps -ef | grep puppetmaster | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9) or otherwise. Just remove the pid file and continue. You can examine the pid file to see if a process with that PID and named puppetmasterd exists. More than likely not.