# Nginx stuck on startup

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-stuck-on-startup/236281>\
**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [August 21, 2013, 8:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-stuck-on-startup/236281 "2013-08-21T20:34:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![alcina](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a587f6/32.png) [@alcina](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alcina)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2013, 8:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-stuck-on-startup/236281/1 "2013-08-21T20:34:34Z")

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Hi everyone,

Recently I’ve needed to restart nginx on my vps (which is debian wheezy)  
and  
it got stuck. Other services are fine but nginx not responding if there  
is a  
file operation involved. For example nginx -h prints out fine, but nginx  
-t  
is just waiting. How can I examine problem?

dmesg and messages are clean. disk and memory usage is not even %50.

This is probably not an nginx-specific error but it’s disturbing. I’ve  
tried  
to downgrade nginx a bit but not worked.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Posted at Nginx Forum:

> **[Nginx stuck on startup](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,242101,242101#msg-242101)**
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> Hi everyone, Recently I've needed to restart nginx on my vps (which is debian wheezy) and it got stuck. Other services are fine but nginx not responding if there is a file operation involved. For example nginx -h prints out fine, but nginx -t is just...

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**Author:** ![xfce4](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/ba9def/32.png) [@xfce4](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/xfce4)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2013, 9:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-stuck-on-startup/236281/2 "2013-08-21T21:41:10Z")

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nevermind. problem with vhosts config

Posted at Nginx Forum:

> **[Re: Nginx stuck on startup](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,242101,242102#msg-242102)**
>
> Hi everyone, Recently I've needed to restart nginx on my vps (which is debian wheezy) and it got stuck. Other services are fine but nginx not responding if there is a file operation involved. For example nginx -h prints out fine, but nginx -t is just...