DNS BIND issue

[guntersammet]

Hi all:
I rent a root server from 1&1 in Germany running Plesk 8.1 on Suse Linux. Yesterday one of the harddrives passed away and it got replaced and mirrored from the other disk. It appears that all data is there but for some reason bind doesn't run. Also about half of the domains don't work. I assume this has to do with the bind issue. Here the error when I try to start bind:

Unable to make action: Unable to manage service by dnsmng: dnsmng: Service /etc/init.d/named failed to start

0: /usr/local/psa/admin/plib/common_func.php3:153
    psaerror(string 'Unable to make action: Unable to manage service by dnsmng: dnsmng: Service /etc/init.d/named failed to start')
1: /usr/local/psa/admin/htdocs/server/restart_services.php:28

/var/log/messages says:

checkproc: checkproc: Can not handle pid file /var/lib/named/var/run/named/named.pid with pid `'
checkproc: checkproc: Can not handle pid file /var/lib/named/var/run/named/named.pid with pid `'
checkproc: checkproc: Can not handle pid file /var/lib/named/var/run/named/named.pid with pid `'
checkproc: checkproc: Can not handle pid file /var/lib/named/var/run/named/named.pid with pid `'
startproc: startproc: Can not handle pid file /var/lib/named/var/run/named/named.pid with pid `'

Didn't find anything in Google and I am kind of lost. Any hints appreciated!
Thanks,

Gunter

 

[guntersammet]

Looks like I fixed it. Found a few lines (http://forums.theplanet.com/lofiversion/index.php/t85855.html):

login as root and..

"rm -rf /var/run/named/named.pid"
"killall -9 named"
"/etc/init.d/named stop"
"/etc/init.d/named start"

Since I wasn't sure if this helps, I renamed named.pid and then initiated the other commands. Worked like a charm. Hope this saves somebody else a few hours of work

G.

 

[wegngis]

Here's what happened with my situation, hopefully it will help someone:

When I ran /etc/init.d/named stop one of my domains returned an error. I didn't get a copy of it, sorry. The point is, though, that I deleted that domain from the Plesk control panel (it was just a domain I was messing with, non-production). After I deleted the domain, /etc/init.d/named start worked just fine.