[Serusers] ser dead but subsys locked, no config works?

[Robert C. Auch]

I was editing my working 0.8.14 system today, and obviously have a bad config file.  in the course of fixing the numerous problems, I came across this error when trying to start ser:
root @ sip> /etc/rc.d/init.d/ser start
starting ser..         [ok]
root @ sip> /etc/rc.d/init.d/ser status
ser dead but subsys locked
root @ sip> rm -f /var/run/ser.pid
root @ sip> rm -f /var/lock/subsys/ser
root @ sip> rm -f /tmp/ser_fifo
root @ sip> /etc/rc.d/init.d/ser status
ser not running
root @ sip> ser
Listening on
              x.x.x.243 [x.x.x.243]:5060
              127.0.0.1 [127.0.0.1]:5060
Aliases: localhost:5060 localhost.localdomain:5060 snort:5060 snort.mydomain.com:5060 127.0.0.1:* x.x.x.243:* sip.mydomain.com:* mydomain.com:*

root @ sip> serctl ps
<hang here>
ctrl-C
[root at sip root]# ps -aux | grep "\bser"
root      6556  0.0  0.6 37808 3184 ?        S    18:05   0:00 ser
root      6560  0.0  0.6 37808 3184 ?        S    18:05   0:00 ser
root      6563  0.0  0.6 37808 3184 ?        S    18:05   0:00 ser
root      6567  0.0  0.6 37808 3184 ?        S    18:05   0:00 ser
root      6570  0.0  0.6 37808 3184 ?        S    18:05   0:00 ser
root      6571  0.0  0.6 37808 3184 ?        S    18:05   0:00 ser
root      6572  0.0  0.6 37808 3184 ?        S    18:05   0:00 ser
root      6577  0.0  0.6 37808 3184 ?        S    18:05   0:00 ser
root      6578  0.0  0.6 37808 3184 ?        S    18:05   0:00 ser
root      6579  0.0  0.6 37808 3184 ?        S    18:05   0:00 ser
root      6580  0.0  0.6 37808 3184 ?        S    18:05   0:00 ser
root      6585  0.0  0.6 37808 3200 ?        S    18:05   0:00 ser
[root at sip root]# serctl moni
[cycle #: 1; if constant make sure server lives and fifo is on]
[root at sip root]# ser -E -ddddddd -D
[root at sip root]# ser -E -D -ddddddddddd
 0(6654) read 639376042 from /dev/random
 0(6654) seeding PRNG with 1736314101
 0(6654) test random number 377719587
 0(6654) shm_mem_init: success
 0(6654) DEBUG: register_fifo_cmd: new command (print) registered
 0(6654) DEBUG: register_fifo_cmd: new command (uptime) registered
 0(6654) DEBUG: register_fifo_cmd: new command (version) registered
 0(6654) DEBUG: register_fifo_cmd: new command (pwd) registered
 0(6654) DEBUG: register_fifo_cmd: new command (arg) registered
 0(6654) DEBUG: register_fifo_cmd: new command (which) registered
 0(6654) DEBUG: register_fifo_cmd: new command (ps) registered
 0(6654) DEBUG: register_fifo_cmd: new command (kill) registered
Listening on
              x.x.x.243 [x.x.x.243]:5060
              192.168.5.179 [192.168.5.179]:5060
              127.0.0.1 [127.0.0.1]:5060
Aliases: localhost:5060 localhost.localdomain:5060 snort:5060 snort.mydomain.com:5060 127.0.0.1:* x.x.x.243:* sip.mydomain.com:* mydomain.com:*
[root at sip root]#
 
serctl shows the same thing.  This is even with my previously working config file, AND after re-running the "make all" and "make install" on 0.8.14_src.tar.gz
 
ser.cfg attached as example.exe
 
I'm starting ser with only the pid file option (-p I think).  a while back I chown'd and chgroup'd the ser folders to a user and group called "ser", but haven't added the -u and -g options to my startup, cause I can't figure out how to get it to work properly that way.
 
Yes, I'm a linux n00b, and have been reading serusers for a few weeks - 90% of my questions so far have been answered through there - I just can't find any answers to this other than one guy in May who just reinstalled, and that solved it.
 
Thanks!
 
Rob 
 
 
 
 
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