Why do I receive the message "multipathd dead but pid file exists" when checking multipathd's status?
Issue
When I check the status of multipathd with service multipathd status, the command reports "multipathd dead but pid file exists". Why is this happening?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- device-mapper-multipath
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