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Re:Re: [Xen-users] i restart xend, but error[xend dead but pid file exis

To: "Tapas Mishra" <mightydreams@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re:Re: [Xen-users] i restart xend, but error[xend dead but pid file exists]
From: yue <ooolinux@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 22:41:20 +0800 (CST)
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rm /var/lib/xend/*
restart xend
 
thanks

At 2011-03-08 22:23:49,"Tapas Mishra" <mightydreams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


2011/3/8 yue <ooolinux@xxxxxxx>

1.[root@testhy9 ~]# /etc/init.d/xend status 
   xend dead but pid file exists

2.i set dom0_mem=8192M
but when it boot up, free says 6.5G.
if xend eat my memory?
thanks

Such a thing is known as stale pid and can happen due to an unclean shutdown.
Go to /var/run
see if there is any file xen.pid or similar name and delete it.
Then reboot things should work. 
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