nginx issue : reload: Name "com.ubuntu.Upstart" does not exist

Question

restarting nginx using sudo service nginx restart is ok .but reloading it using service nginx reload get this error on Ubuntu 16.04:

reload: Name "com.ubuntu.Upstart" does not exist

Answer 1

Ubuntu 16.04 has poor error handling for this case. The error

Name "com.ubuntu.Upstart" does not exist

usually just means "Access Denied". Are you sure you had sudo there, too?