Greg, Follow the following steps for me.... remove *any* reference you can find to capistrano, some of the following may help
$ gem list --local | grep capistrano $ gem contents capistrano $ gem --version $ cap --version $ which cap $ which capify # gem list --local | grep capistrano # gem contents capistrano # which cap # which capify Where $ means `run as you` and # is `run as a root user` Then if things still aren't working out for you, you should try coming back to the list, it is *entirely* possible that the API for the functions you are relying upon has changes between 2.5.3 and 2.5.5, what variable is set to 'nsight_dev', is it :application? - Lee 2009/4/24 Greg Pederson <[email protected]> > > Hi All, > I'm hoping someone can help relieve my pain :) > > I did a gem update which updated my capistrano from 2.5.3 to 2.5.5 and > after the upgrade my deploys stop working and failing with the > following error: > > failed: "sh -c \"sudo -p 'sudo password: ' chown app_nsight_dev /home/ > gspederson/apps/nsight_dev/shared/log/mongrel.log\"" on 209.20.85.24 > > and further up the log file there is this message: > ** [out :: 209.20.85.24] chown: invalid user: `app_nsight_dev' > > I tried this on 2 other apps that had previously been working fine > with cap deploy and all had the same error about the user > 'app_<app_name>' > > After not being able to find anything I decided to try to remove > 2.5.5, but it wasn't listed in my gem list, so I found this post: > > http://www.brianculler.com/golbhet/2009/03/03/unable-to-uninstall-capistrano-even-though-its-listed-as-installed-heres-how-to-fix-that/ > > and I unwisely deleted the capistrano gem from /usr/local/lib/ruby/ > gems/1.8/gems and tried to reinstall with > sudo gem install capistrano -v 2.5.3 > > after that I started getting the following error: > > /usr/local/bin/cap:19:in `load': no such file to load -- cap > (LoadError) > from /usr/local/bin/cap:19 > > I've tried removing all with gem uninstall, reinstalling with and with > out capistrano versions and still no luck. > > I'm out of ideas and really hoping someone smarter than me can give me > some guidance. > > Thanks for your help > > Greg > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/capistrano -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
