By Chris Mingay
Hi all,
I just allowed my droplet to update to “the latest version of our cloud” and now I am having issues with Nginx/PHP5-FPM
I get the following error multiple times when I try to start FPM
init: php5-fpm main process (3586) terminated with status 78
Followed by
init: php5-fpm respawning too fast, stopped
I’ve not changed anything config wise, and it was working fine after a restart before the droplet upgrade.
Any tips?
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What method are you using to start/restart php5-fpm? If you are using the /etc/init.d/php5-fpm script directly this is likely the cause of the issue since php5-fpm utilizes upstart. I’ve found a couple places with additional information and solutions for this issue which can be found below:
Can’t start or stop php-fpm on Ubuntu Mysterious error with php5-fpm
In the future when starting/stopping/restarting php5-fpm you can use the commands:
service php5-fpm start #Start the service
service php5-fpm stop #Stop the service
service php5-fpm restart # Restart the service
Hi
In my case, we changed de rlimit_files to
rlimit_files = unlimited
and php fails to start. If we change the directive to
;rlimit_files = unlimited
php5-fpm runs ok.
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