There is a flag file in the config directory.   It was called dbxml.pid,
try xindice.pid.   Anyway, delete it.  Xindice/dbXML is finding that
file.

I can never remember, so I have a file called "wontstart" with
instructions:-).

Mark

Paul Caton wrote:

> I installed Xindice on a box running Solaris 5.6 and started the
> server with ./start. I got an error message telling me to amend a line
> in a source file, and the command for creating the addressbook
> collection didn't work, so I figured I would stop the server, fix the
> source file, and recompile. However, the xindiceadmin shutdown -c /db
> command didn't work either, so I decided to just kill the server
> process. I did this, and checked that it was indeed dead by running ps
> -A. Yet when I went to run ./start again, I'm getting a message saying
> that "A Xindice instance is already running with PID 15938", even
> though that process doesn't show up with any of the normal Unix
> process-checking commands.
>
> Is the process *really* running, and is just hidden from commands like
> ps, or was some kind of state variable set in a Xindice file when I
> first started the server and because I couldn't shut it down with
> xindiceadmin shutdown the variable is still set?
>
> Paul.
>
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