atalk and possibly other services not responding?

[TheChihuahua]

I just installed atalk or netatalk, whatever you want to call it and I wont start. I log into root to start the service (because I can't start services through the terminal as a user (not quite sure why but I haven't even looked into that yet) ) and I go

service atalk start

I get the response

Starting afpd:afpd is already running (pid = 2576), or the lock file is stale. [FAILED]

Now It is set to automatically start, but because my mac cont find the serve I was think it wasent on, so I check the status to see if something went wrong.

service atalk status

and I get

atalkd is stopped

now this is weird so I give the command

service atalk stop

and I get

Stopping afpd: [ OK ]

I check the status again and still see

atalkd is stopped

so I try to start it back up and get

Starting afpd: [ OK ]

Now I think great, but just to make sure I give it a chek before testing it out on my mac

service atalk status

and my response is again

atalkd is stopped

so, I do the next thing on my mind, I try to start it again and what happens?

Starting afpd:afpd is already running (pid = 2716), or the lock file is stale. [FAILED]

so as one final effort I try to restart it, and I get.

Shutting down AppleTalk services:
Stopping afpd: [ OK ]

Starting AppleTalk services:
Starting afpd: [ OK ]

But any enthusiasm I had is dashed when I check the status and get again

atalkd is stopped

Anybody else have this kinda problem, I'm sure somebody who is not a complete noob will know how to fix it.

Nevermind I figured out how to get it working and all is well now.