False alarm.  I didn't realize that a change had been made to
whimsy.conf that broke mac users, and I first picked up this change
when I tried upgrading to Big Sur.

Details here:

https://github.com/apache/whimsy/commit/b2fa8ec31a700d5772b40f6bd5ab007d8d3d97e3

- Sam Ruby

On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 4:07 PM Sam Ruby <ru...@intertwingly.net> wrote:
>
> I upgraded a macbook from macOS Catalina to Big Sur.
>
> This resulted in a number of messages that various gems needed to be
> reinstalled --pristine.  However, attempting to do so failed due to
> permission errors, and attempting to reinstall the gems resulted in
> errors due to headers not being found.
>
> Not wanting to deal with this mess, I wiped the hard drive and
> reinstalled Big Sur.  After doing so, setupmymac ran clean, and loaded
> the whimsy.local landing page.
>
> The problem occurred when I navigated to the board agenda tool. It seems
> that passenger applications run as 'nobody' rather than either the
> configured passenger user or the owner of the config.ru file.  To be
> fair, Phusion Passenger indicates that Big Sur is not yet a supported
> configuration.
>
> I've opened an issue:
>
> https://github.com/phusion/passenger/issues/2320
>
> - Sam Ruby
>

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