It probably died (either ps -ef | grep puppetmaster | awk '{print $2}' | 
xargs kill -9) or otherwise. Just remove the pid file and continue. You can 
examine the pid file to see if a process with that PID and named 
puppetmasterd exists. More than likely not.

On Tuesday, September 2, 2014 10:56:59 AM UTC-4, Spriya wrote:
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> Hi John
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> This is the way i am doing:
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> *service puppetmaster stopStopping 
> puppetmaster:                                     [FAILED][root@cluster2 
> puppet]# service puppetmaster startStarting 
> puppetmaster:                                     [  OK  ][root@cluster2 
> puppet]# service puppetmaster statuspuppet dead but pid file existsLet me 
> know*
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> On Tuesday, September 2, 2014 7:50:12 AM UTC-7, JohnK wrote:
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>> How are you stopping Puppetmaster? If you are not gracefully shutting 
>> puppetmaster down then the PID file will not be deleted.
>>
>>
>> John Kennedy  (_8(|)
>> I have a yellow dog:
>> http://www.theyellowdogproject.com/The_Yellow_Dog_Project/About.html
>>
>> Why would anyone foster a dog/cat?
>> I would rather cry watching them leave our home to live a life of 
>> happiness and joy in a loving home than cry because no one stepped up to 
>> help them and they died alone, frightened, and sad in a shelter.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Spriya <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am having an issue when restarting puppetmaster.
>>> *$service puppetmaster status*
>>> *puppet dead but pid file exists*
>>>
>>>
>>> Let me know what might be the issue.
>>>
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