[cobalt-users] admin server not running possibly due to adm_access problem

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sometime between when I installed the latest kernel update using 
BlueLinq and now, the admin server on my Qube 3 stopped running. Let 
me emphasize: this is not a firewall connection problem. The server 
does not run, even when I start it manually using 
/etc/rc.d/init.d/admserv start. For example, right now:

[root init.d]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/admserv status
ahttpd dead but subsys locked

There's no  /var/run/admserv.pid file. ahttpd doesn't show up in the 
process list. It just isn't running. The regular, non-admin server is 
running on port 80 without a problem.

After various searching though google and wading through various 
scripts, I discovered many lines like the following in the adm_error 
file:

[Mon Jan 14 13:45:11 2002] [error] (5)Input/output error: could not open
transfer log file /var/log/httpd/adm_access.

Initially that file was missing, so I created it as an empty file 
using touch. However, that reported an I/O error and indeed when I 
attempt to cat the file:

[admin httpd]$ cat adm_access
cat: adm_access: Input/output error

Can anyone shed some light on this? Specifically,

1. What is going on?
2. How do I fix it?

Your assistance is much appreciated.
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