nginx reload not working, restart creates orphan yet active worker

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 01:22:53PM -0400, groknaut wrote:

> and i forgot to include nginx -V ..
> 
> 
> 10/19 19:12[root at proxy2 ~]# nginx -V
> nginx: nginx version: nginx/1.0.5
> nginx: built by gcc 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-50)
> nginx: TLS SNI support disabled
> nginx: configure arguments: --user=nginx --group=nginx
> --prefix=/usr/share/nginx --sbin-path=/usr/sbin/nginx
> --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
> --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log
> --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log
> --http-client-body-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/tmp/client_body
> --http-proxy-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/tmp/proxy
> --http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/tmp/fastcgi
> --http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/tmp/uwsgi
> --http-scgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/tmp/scgi
> --pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid --lock-path=/var/lock/subsys/nginx
> --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_realip_module
> --with-http_addition_module --with-http_xslt_module
> --with-http_image_filter_module --with-http_sub_module
> --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_random_index_module
> --with-http_secure_link_module --with-http_degradation_module
> --with-http_stub_status_module --with-http_perl_module --with-ipv6
> --with-cc-opt='-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions
> -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i386
> -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables' --with-cc-opt='-O2 -g -pipe
> -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector
> --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=generic
> -fasynchronous-unwind-tables' --with-debug
> --add-module=src/http/modules/nginx_syslog_patch
> --add-module=src/http/modules/nginx_upstream_module
> --add-module=src/http/modules/nginx_ajp_module

Are you able to reproduce the problem without 3rd party 
modules/patches?

Maxim Dounin