epoll_ctl failed (17: File exists)

[Matthias-Christian Ott]

Hi,

when I run '/etc/init.d/nginx reload' on Debian, I get the following
error message in /var/log/nginx/error.log and I have to restart nginx:

2010/04/08 03:07:23 [alert] 10719#0: epoll_ctl(1, 7) failed (17: File exists)

$ nginx -V
nginx version: nginx/0.7.65
TLS SNI support enabled
configure arguments: --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
--error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log --pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid
--lock-path=/var/lock/nginx.lock
--http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log
--http-client-body-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/body
--http-proxy-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/proxy
--http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/fastcgi --with-debug
--with-http_stub_status_module --with-http_flv_module
--with-http_ssl_module --with-http_dav_module
--with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_realip_module --with-mail
--with-mail_ssl_module --with-ipv6 --with-http_geoip_module
--add-module=/tmp/buildd/nginx-0.7.65/modules/nginx-upstream-fair

$ cat /etc/nginx/nginx.conf 
user www-data;
worker_processes  1;

error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log;
pid        /var/run/nginx.pid;

events {
    worker_connections  1024;
    # multi_accept on;
}

http {
    include       /etc/nginx/mime.types;

    access_log	/var/log/nginx/access.log;

    sendfile        on;
    #tcp_nopush     on;

    #keepalive_timeout  0;
    keepalive_timeout  65;
    tcp_nodelay        on;

    gzip on;
    gzip_static on;
    gzip_http_version 1.1;
    gzip_proxied expired no-cache no-store private auth;
    gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\.(?!.*SV1)";
    gzip_vary on;

    include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
    include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
}

# mail {
[...]

$ uname -a
Linux example.com 2.6.26-2-openvz-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Aug 6 01:50:56 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Any ideas?

Regards,
Matthias-Christian