Why do I receive 'autofs dead but PID file exists' message while restarting autofs service?
Issue
- Unable to restart
autofs service:
# service autofs restart
[Failed]
Automount dead but PID file exists
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
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