Chris-
On Apr 5, 2007, at 10:37 AM, Chris T wrote:
>
> OK. Made a bit of progress on this. Have setup a duplicate server
> instance with mongrel_cluster on it (really glad I went with Xen now)
> and also done a bit of following back the code with ruby-debug.
> I can now reproduce the error, but only if I (re)start the mongrels
> with
> monit. Then, the particular page fails every time. Here's the
> particular
> part of the montirc file that restarts the mongrel instances:
>
> check process mongrel_8001 with pidfile
> /var/run/mongrel_cluster/mongrel_carstuff.8001.pid
> start program = "/usr/bin/mongrel_rails cluster::start -C
> /home/frankg/sites/carstuff/current/config/mongrel_cluster.yml
> --clean --only 8001"
> stop program = "/usr/bin/mongrel_rails cluster::stop -C
> /home/frankg/sites/carstuff/current/config/mongrel_cluster.yml
> --clean --only 8001"
>
> However, if I manually start a mongrel instance with:
> /usr/bin/mongrel_rails cluster::start -C
> /home/frankg/sites/carstuff/current/config/mongrel_cluster.yml --clean
> --only 8001
> the page is rendered with no problems.
>
> Couple of other things, What seemed to be happening on that page was
> that the Photo model was being reloaded, as if it was in the
> development
> environment. It fails the first time (ImageScience fails on the
> line env
> = ENV['INLINEDIR'] || ENV['HOME'] -- both are nil). Why it occurs on
> that page and not on others, I still haven't figured out.
>
> Will keep plugging away at this, but if anyone's got any bright ideas
> would welcome them.
>
> Thanks
> Chris
>
Monit starts your mongrels with a fully clean environemnt. Meaning
none of your normal ENV vars are set. WHat you need to do is put this
in the top of your environment.rb
ENV['HOME'] = "/home/foobar"
Then restart monit and all the mongrels. This will fix the problem.
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