Re: [cobalt-users] URGENT!! Server not responding after patch

[Jeff Bilicki <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> on 5/26/02 11:27 PM, Tim Dunn at tdunn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Alisa,
>> 
>>> Tried a restart, reboot many times in the past day.  Nothing works.
>>> Any other ideas
>> 
>> What do your log files say?  Have you tried starting httpd from the
>> command line (after '/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd stop')?  I'd be looking
>> at where apache dies, and why.
>> 
>> tim
> I've tried everything, stop/start httpd from command line and other non
> essential services and still the web server is not responding.  My co-lo
> thinks something got corrupted and have advised a clean install.  We've all
> spent nearly 16 hours trying to not reinstall, but it seems there's no work
> around for this one.

> I've already given the go ahead for the clean install, and I'll go back in
> and reload all the clients sites and 3rd party software.  Luckily I do daily
> backups and did a full backup the day before I did the patch upgrades.

Have you check the variuous log files for error messages?
I would check the following:
/var/log/messages
/var/log/httpd/adm*
/var/log/httpd/access
/var/log/httpd/error