Brian asked:
On a Rackspace cloud server I see:
[email protected]:/etc/nginx$ sudo /etc/init.d/nginx start
Starting nginx: nginx: [crit] pwrite() "/var/run/nginx.pid" failed (28: No space left on device)
nginx.
[email protected]:/etc/nginx$ sudo df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 9.4G 6.6G 2.4G 74% /
udev 10M 8.0K 10M 1% /dev
none 25M 25M 0 100% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 123M 0 123M 0% /run/shm
[email protected]:/etc/nginx$ df -i
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 1245184 154910 1090274 13% /
udev 31392 427 30965 2% /dev
none 31392 1374 30018 5% /run
none 31392 2 31390 1% /run/lock
none 31392 1 31391 1% /run/shm
Any ideas?
My answer:
You have indeed run out of space on /run (which is symlinked from /var/run on newer versions of Fedora and possibly other distributions). Check the directory and remove any unnecessary files, and consider giving it more space.
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