Symptom: When user enables vsftpd through # service vsftpd start an error is displayed:
vsftpd dead but subsys locked
Solution: The most common reason for this error to be displayed is because another ftp daemon was enabled. By default the ftp daemon installed is gssftp which is a xinetd service and in many cases has been known to be turned on by default. If this service is in fact on and the user tries to start vsftpd the above error will be displayed and not allow vsftp to run correctly.
In order to correct this issue simply turn off the gssftp service by typing the following command as a root user :
