Jenkins dead but pid file exists

Question

Hi Team,

I have installed Jenkins. But I am getting the below error when I tried to start Jenkins service.

jenkins dead but pid file exists

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

There may be various reasons behind this error. You may have another server that is conflicting with Jenkins like Tomcat. So you need to stop the service.

$ syatemctl stop tomcat 
$ systemctl start jenkins 

Also, check if you have Java installed or not in your system.