Apache httpd fails to start with "No space left on device" logged

Issue

• Apache could not be started and failed with an error similar to one or more of the following:

  [emerg] No space left on device: Couldn't create accept lock (/etc/http/logs/accept.lock.7578)
  [crit]  No space left on device: mod_rewrite: could not create rewrite_log_lock Configuration Failed
  [emerg] No space left on device: Couldn't create accept lock
  [error] No space left on device: Cannot create SSLMutex Configuration Failed
  [crit] (28)No space left on device: mod_rewrite: Parent could not create RewriteLock file /etc/httpd/run/rhnccrewrite.lock
  

• httpd will not start and shows 'Configuration Failed'

• Apache will not start and the last line of error_log shows:

  Configuration Failed
  

• Apache fails to start and service status shows:

  [root@host ~]# service httpd status
  httpd dead but subsys locked
  

• Apache fails to start and service status shows:

  [root@host ~]# service httpd status
  httpd dead but pid file exists
  

• httpd dies and could not be restarted by systemctl. While trying to start it failed with an error similar to one or more of the following:

  [core:notice] [pid 23014] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND'
  [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 23014] AH00170: caught SIGWINCH, shutting down gracefully
  [core:emerg] [pid 26828] (28)No space left on device: AH00023: Couldn't create the rewrite-map mutex 
  AH00016: Configuration Failed