I did that last night and am now running on 12.04 with no issues as far as content goes, my php is throwing some errors in the cron job ever 30 minutes so I'll need to look into that.

Error

PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php5/20090626+lfs/xml.so' - /usr/lib/php5/20090626+lfs/xml.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: Module 'curl' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: Module 'xmlrpc' already loaded in Unknown on line 0

And my fpm/main.conf

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; FPM Configuration ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;include=/etc/php5/fpm/*.conf

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Global Options ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
[global]
pid = /var/run/php5-fpm.pid

error_log = /var/log/php5-fpm.log

;log_level = notice

;emergency_restart_threshold = 0

;emergency_restart_interval = 0

;process_control_timeout = 0

;daemonize = yes

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Pool Definitions ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
include=/etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/*.conf

I eliminated the commented stuff as that's nothing truly relevant. A lot of variables are commented out so I assume they're using defaults.

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The php errors will be from borked php.ini files, the first one is trying to load a module that doesn't exist (did you install any via pecl by any chance?)
The other two are trying to load a module twice.

As for PHP fpm...not helpful the configs have changed since I last looked what's do all the files in /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/*.conf contain?

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I've never messed with pecl, I had to do a quick search just now (by nature not a server admin but command line cozy).

I did locate the references in the php.ini file (of which there's two, and I'll investigate this further) and comment out the xml.so and the two that were loading twice so hooray for not getting a cron email of errors every thirty minutes, lol.

The file I have in that directory is www.conf (below, non-relevant comments removed)

; Start a new pool named 'www'.
[www]

listen = /var/run/php-fpm.sock

listen.backlog = 1024
 
;listen.allowed_clients = 127.0.0.1

listen.owner = www-data
listen.group = www-data
listen.mode = 0600

user = www-data
group = www-data

pm = dynamic

pm.max_children = 12

;pm.start_servers = 4

pm.min_spare_servers = 2

pm.max_spare_servers = 4
 
pm.max_requests = 1024

;pm.status_path = /status
 
;ping.path = /ping

;ping.response = pong
 
;request_terminate_timeout = 0
 
;request_slowlog_timeout = 0
 
;slowlog = /var/log/php-fpm.log.slow
 
;rlimit_files = 1024
 
;rlimit_core = 0
 
;chroot = 
 
chdir = /var/www
 
;catch_workers_output = yes
 
;env[HOSTNAME] = $HOSTNAME
;env[PATH] = /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
;env[TMP] = /tmp
;env[TMPDIR] = /tmp
;env[TEMP] = /tmp

;php_admin_value[sendmail_path] = /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i -f www@my.domain.com
;php_flag[display_errors] = off
;php_admin_value[error_log] = /var/log/fpm-php.www.log
;php_admin_flag[log_errors] = on
;php_admin_value[memory_limit] = 32M

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Ok in your nginx config file where it says fcgi_pass change it to /var/run/php-fpm.sock then restart nginx.

Also you may want to drop pm.max_children = 12 in your fpm www.conf to say 6, if you have some high memory php processes it could cause problems.

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IT WORKED, YOU ARE A GOD!!!

Thank you so very much I was pulling out my hair on this one. You rock!

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Lol not quite god just been playing with servers for a long time. Glad it worked

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