Comment 1 for bug 1450770

I have the same issue, but I have also observed that after logrotate fails, new access.log, access.log.1 and access.log.*.gz files are created. However, nginx will continue to write to the old acces.log file (i.e. access.log.1) until a configuration reload (service nginx reload, service nginx restart, system reboot, etc.).

This happens with both error and access log files.