epoll_ctl failed (17: File exists)

[Matthias-Christian Ott]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 03:17:09AM +0200, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote:
> 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/*;
> }
> 
> # 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
> 
> # mail {
> [...]

This should read:

# 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
 
Regards,
Matthias-Christian