What's wrong with Sphinx?

Question

Sphinx

Hello! help me understand the situation:

[email protected]:~# /etc/init.d/sphinxsearch status
sphinxsearch is not running.
[email protected]:~# /etc/init.d/sphinxsearch start 
Starting sphinxsearch: Sphinx 2.1.8-id64-release (rel21-r4675)
Copyright (c) 2001-2014, Andrew Aksyonoff
Copyright (c) 2008-2014, Sphinx Technologies Inc (http://sphinxsearch.com)

using config file '/etc/sphinxsearch/sphinx.conf'...
FATAL: failed to lock pid file '/etc/sphinxsearch/searchd.pid': Resource temporarily unavailable (searchd already running?)

Answer 1

> pidof searchd
> killall searchd
> rm -f /etc/sphinxsearch/searchd.pid