Samba fails to start with the Error : "smbd dead but pid file exists"

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Issue

Samba fails to start with the Error : "smbd dead but pid file exists".

Restarted the samba services but still fails with the same error.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5

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