httpd process issue

[jazztrump9]

im getting the httpd dead but subsys locked error when i type service httpd status. I tried removing /var/lock/subsys/httpd and i removed the httpd.pid but that didn't help. when i view the error log from httpd i see the following:

[Sun Jun 28 05:29:07 2009] [notice] core dump file size limit raised to 4294967295 bytes
[Sun Jun 28 05:29:07 2009] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)
[Sun Jun 28 05:29:09 2009] [notice] ModSecurity for Apache/2.5.9 (http://www.modsecurity.org/) configured.
[Sun Jun 28 05:29:09 2009] [notice] Original server signature: Apache/2.2.11 (Fedora)
[Sun Jun 28 05:29:09 2009] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Sun Jun 28 05:29:09 2009] [notice] Digest: done
[Sun Jun 28 05:29:11 2009] [notice] mod_python: Creating 4 session mutexes based on 150 max processes and 0 max threads.
[Sun Jun 28 05:29:11 2009] [notice] mod_python: using mutex_directory /tmp
[Sun Jun 28 05:29:12 2009] [notice] Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) DAV/2 mod_auth_kerb/5.4 mod_auth_pgsql/2.0.3 mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8k-fips Apache/2.2.0 (Fedora) PHP/5.2.9 mod_python/3.3.1 Python/2.6 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.0 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Sun Jun 28 05:37:29 2009] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Sun Jun 28 05:40:54 2009] [notice] core dump file size limit raised to 4294967295 bytes
[Sun Jun 28 05:40:56 2009] [notice] ModSecurity for Apache/2.5.9 (http://www.modsecurity.org/) configured.
[Sun Jun 28 05:40:56 2009] [notice] Original server signature: Apache/2.2.11 (Fedora)
[Sun Jun 28 05:40:57 2009] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Sun Jun 28 05:40:57 2009] [notice] Digest: done
[Sun Jun 28 05:40:58 2009] [notice] mod_python: Creating 4 session mutexes based on 150 max processes and 0 max threads.
[Sun Jun 28 05:40:58 2009] [notice] mod_python: using mutex_directory /tmp
[Sun Jun 28 05:40:59 2009] [notice] Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) DAV/2 mod_auth_kerb/5.4 mod_auth_pgsql/2.0.3 mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8k-fips Apache/2.2.0 (Fedora) PHP/5.2.9 mod_python/3.3.1 Python/2.6 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.0 configured -- resuming normal operations

which doesn't really tell me much...

i can start the service and it actually is running, but i cant stop it unless i do a killall httpd and restarting doesn't work, i have to kill it and start it again. Although the server is running and doing everything its supposed to, i somehow dont think its working 100% the way it should because of that error.

I hope someone has some insight on this.