Apache Can't start because of a make_sock bind to address error on port 80

Question

I have noticed a new thing going on with my server that I can't quite figure out what is making it happen. I'm hoping someone out there has experience with this problem and can help me find a solution to get it to stop.

I did a reboot on my ubuntu server tonight that I have running at slicehost.com. Everything runs great until I go to start apache. I get the following error.

* Starting web server apache2 (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80 no listening sockets available, shutting down Unable to open logs
...fail!

A little further research using netstat -ltnp | grep ':80' will show the following:

tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:80
0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 3948/apache2

I can then kill 3948 and apache starts up like normal. The PID 3948 keeps changing to a different number.

This is new and the only thing I have done since I had a successful boot without this happening was uninstalling a manual install of phpmyadmin and then re-install it using the aptitude install commands. Phpmyadmin now runs fine on the server but I don't understand what this error means or how I can go about getting it resolved.

Anyone that might offer some insight would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

Check If you don't double-start your server, and if your partitions are already mounted, so it can access its log files.

I advice to restate that question on serverfault.com, your question is slightly misplaced here.