title: Jenkins dead but pid file exists
body: <p>I am running into an issue where a fresh install of Jenkins is not accessible. This is the error and OS details: Upon starting jenkins results in "OK" status message however if I run status-all | grep jenkins it results in:</p>
  
  <pre><code>jenkins dead but pid file exists
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.2 (Santiago) with Yum as package manager.</p>
  
  <pre><code>rpm -qa | grep java
  
  java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.19-2.3.9.1.el6_4.x86_64
  java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.61.1.11.11.el6_4.x86_64
  tzdata-java-2011l-4.el6.noarch
  libvirt-java-0.4.7-1.el6.noarch
  libvirt-java-devel-0.4.7-1.el6.noarch
  java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel-1.6.0.0-1.61.1.11.11.el6_4.x86_64
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Permissions are:</p>
  
  <pre><code>ls -la /var/lib/jenkins/
  total 8
  drwxr-xr-x   2 jenkins jenkins 4096 Aug 27 00:21 .
  drwxr-xr-x. 29 root    root    4096 Aug 27 14:47 ..
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Has anyone resolved this before?</p>