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user3514447
user3514447

Reputation: 21

Getting following error while stopping apache

Stopping XAMPP for Linux 1.8.3-3...
XAMPP: Stopping Apache...fail.
apachectl returned 1.
XAMPP: Stopping MySQL...ok.
XAMPP: Stopping ProFTPD...kill: usage: kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec] pid | jobspec ... or kill -l [sigspec]
fail.
kill returned 1

i am getting the above error while stopping the apache please help me and i am using ubuntu

Upvotes: 2

Views: 12890

Answers (4)

Vatsal Shah
Vatsal Shah

Reputation: 1442

When runningsudo /opt/lampp/lampp stop I get

Stopping XAMPP for Linux 5.6.30-1… XAMPP: Stopping Apache…fail. apachectl returned 1. XAMPP: Stopping MySQL…ok. XAMPP: Stopping ProFTPD…ok.

And when I open my browser localhost it’s not working

My solution it’s work for me.

run :

sudo rm -f /opt/lampp/logs/httpd.pid

Now restart xampp. You should not face this problem again.

Upvotes: 2

vipmaa
vipmaa

Reputation: 1122

Delete the following files:

$XAMPP_ROOT/logs/httpd.pid
$XAMPP_ROOT/var/mysql/$(hostname).pid
$XAMPP_ROOT/var/proftpd.pid

Upvotes: 2

Raja C
Raja C

Reputation: 159

I had the exact same issue. Since you are getting an error stopping Apache and ProFTP only, you need to delete these two files:

/opt/lampp/logs/httpd.pid

and

/opt/lampp/var/proftpd.pid

When you delete the httpd.pid, Apache is automatically killed. And similar happens when you remove the proftpd.pid.

So now you can go ahead and restart the server and new fresh files will be created. :)

Upvotes: 7

Lix
Lix

Reputation: 47966

Looks like the script is trying to stop the ProFTPD service but it is not running. The line:

kill: usage: kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec] pid | jobspec ... or kill -l [sigspec]

Indicates that a kill command was issued with malformed or missing parameters. If you are not using ProFTPD, you can remove all instances of it in the startup and termination scripts.

The script that you are running is not only trying to stop the apache service but rather all the services that are related to XAMPP -

  • X is the platform - could be windows, linux or mac
  • A​pache
  • M​ySql
  • P​hpMyAdmin
  • P​hp

Upvotes: 0

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