Mongrel users - Mar 2007 - Issues with mongrel PID files when restarting clusters with Capistrano

Hey all:

When using capistrano and/or manually restarting mongrel clusters we 
encounter errors when restarting that states:

** !!! PID file log/mongrel.8010.pid already exists.  Mongrel could be 
running already.  Check your log/mongrel.log for errors.
** !!! Exiting with error.  You must stop mongrel and clear the .pid 
before I''ll attempt a start.
** !!! PID file log/mongrel.8011.pid already exists.  Mongrel could be 
running already.  Check your log/mongrel.log for errors.
** !!! Exiting with error.  You must stop mongrel and clear the .pid 
before I''ll attempt a start.
** !!! PID file log/mongrel.8012.pid already exists.  Mongrel could be 
running already.  Check your log/mongrel.log for errors.
** !!! Exiting with error.  You must stop mongrel and clear the .pid 
before I''ll attempt a start.

I then manually have to kill the processes, and if the pids are there, I 
clean them out and restart without issue. However this only happens 
intermittently. Both the server processes and the pid files are owned by 
the mongrel user.

thanks for any insight.
Ryan

You need the latest prerelease of mongrel, which has an option to blow
away dead PIDs.  Search the archives of this group, it was recently
announced.

On 3/14/07, Ryan <abstractryan at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hey all:
>
> When using capistrano and/or manually restarting mongrel clusters we
> encounter errors when restarting that states:
>
> ** !!! PID file log/mongrel.8010.pid already exists.  Mongrel could be
> running already.  Check your log/mongrel.log for errors.
> ** !!! Exiting with error.  You must stop mongrel and clear the .pid
> before I''ll attempt a start.
> ** !!! PID file log/mongrel.8011.pid already exists.  Mongrel could be
> running already.  Check your log/mongrel.log for errors.
> ** !!! Exiting with error.  You must stop mongrel and clear the .pid
> before I''ll attempt a start.
> ** !!! PID file log/mongrel.8012.pid already exists.  Mongrel could be
> running already.  Check your log/mongrel.log for errors.
> ** !!! Exiting with error.  You must stop mongrel and clear the .pid
> before I''ll attempt a start.
>
> I then manually have to kill the processes, and if the pids are there, I
> clean them out and restart without issue. However this only happens
> intermittently. Both the server processes and the pid files are owned by
> the mongrel user.
>
> thanks for any insight.
> Ryan
>
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