LMS seems to not open ports anymore

> yet I see nothing on ports 9090 or 9000 - it seems like the server
> started without opening anything ? I tried to stop/start the server,
> reboot, always similar outcome. Other services (apache) runs OK and has
> it's port correctly openned

Can you check the process list to see whether LMS is running or not?

What OS are you using? What Perl version (perl -v)?