I am having some problems with ubuntu and php5-fpm on my VPS. Php works fine, however it throws terminal error when I am trying to reload / restart / stop it. Basically, I c
Try to stop your php5-fpm instance by service php5-fpm stop again. Wait for some seconds. Try to see, which processes was not terminated using ps -ef. Terminate them by kill . Start php5-fpm again.
Is seems, not all child processes was terminated properly by service ... command.
I have similar issues in on server, but they are not regular