# Capistrano problem **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [August 28, 2006, 1:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano-problem/66691 "2006-08-28T13:06:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![paulk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/67e7ee/32.png) [@paulk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/paulk)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2006, 1:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano-problem/66691/1 "2006-08-28T13:06:28Z")
hello I am trying to get Capistrano working for my application. I am getting a problem where Capistrano is trying to make a symbolic link to /public/system. Well my app does not have a system under public. Is it supposed to? If so, how do I create one? Here is the Capistrano output in question. After this fails, it attempts to rollback and does not do too well. \*\* [out :: [www.paulkristoff.com](http://www.paulkristoff.com)] creating symbolic link `/home/kristoff/rails_sites/website/releases/20060827132215/public/syste m' to `/home/kristoff/rails\_sit es/website/shared/system’ \*\* [out :: [www.paulkristoff.com](http://www.paulkristoff.com)] : No such file or directory \*\* [out :: 69.16.220.210] ln: creating symbolic link `/home/kristoff/rails_sites/website/releases/20060827132215/public/syste m' to `/home/kristoff/rails\_sites/ website/shared/system’: No such file or directory Any help would be appreciated. Below is the full trace. Paul Kristoff $ rake --trace remote:deploy (in /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Paul/My Documents/rails/website) MY UNITS Task\_name = remote:deploy \*\* Invoke remote:deploy (first\_time) \*\* Execute remote:deploy loading configuration /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capistrano-1.1.0/lib/capis trano/recipes/standard.rb loading configuration ./config/deploy.rb - executing task deploy \*\* transaction: start - executing task update\_code - querying latest revision… Password: - executing “if [[ ! -d /home/kristoff/rails\_sites/website/releases/2006082713 2215 ]]; then\n svn co -q -r20 svn+ssh://removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid /home/kristoff/svn/GivingTree/ /home/kristoff/rails\_sites/website/releases/20060 827132215 &&\n (test -e /home/kristoff/rails\_sites/website/revision s.log || touch /home/kristoff/rails\_sites/website/revisions.log && chmod 666 /ho me/kristoff/rails\_sites/website/revisions.log) && echo `date +\"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:% S\"` $USER 20 20060827132215 \>\> /home/kristoff/rails\_sites/website/revisions.log ;\n fi” servers: [“69.16.220.210”, “[www.paulkristoff.com](http://www.paulkristoff.com)”] Password: - executing “rm -rf /home/kristoff/rails\_sites/website/releases/20060827132215 /log /home/kristoff/rails\_sites/website/releases/20060827132215/public/system && \n ln -nfs /home/kristoff/rails\_sites/website/shared/log /home/kristoff/rails _sites/website/releases/20060827132215/log &&\n ln -nfs /home/kristoff/rails_ sites/website/shared/system /home/kristoff/rails\_sites/website/releases/20060827 132215/public/system” servers: [“69.16.220.210”, “[www.paulkristoff.com](http://www.paulkristoff.com)”] [[www.paulkristoff.com](http://www.paulkristoff.com)] executing command [69.16.220.210] executing command \*\* [out :: [www.paulkristoff.com](http://www.paulkristoff.com)] ln: \*\* [out :: [www.paulkristoff.com](http://www.paulkristoff.com)] creating symbolic link `/home/kristoff/rails_s ites/website/releases/20060827132215/public/system' to `/home/kristoff/rails\_sit es/website/shared/system’ \*\* [out :: [www.paulkristoff.com](http://www.paulkristoff.com)] : No such file or directory \*\* [out :: 69.16.220.210] ln: creating symbolic link `/home/kristoff/rails_site s/website/releases/20060827132215/public/system' to `/home/kristoff/rails\_sites/ website/shared/system’: No such file or directory command finished \*\*\* [update\_code] transaction: rollback - [update\_code] rolling back - executing "rm -rf /home/kristoff/rails\_sites/website/releases/20060827132215 " servers: [“[www.paulkristoff.com](http://www.paulkristoff.com)”, “69.16.220.210”] [69.16.220.210] executing command [[www.paulkristoff.com](http://www.paulkristoff.com)] executing command \*\* [out :: [www.paulkristoff.com](http://www.paulkristoff.com)] rm: \*\* [out :: [www.paulkristoff.com](http://www.paulkristoff.com)] cannot remove directory `/home/kristoff/rails_ sites/website/releases/20060827132215/Website/app/views/root' **[out :: www.paulkristoff.com] : No such file or directory** [out :: www.paulkristoff.com] rm: ** [out :: www.paulkristoff.com] cannot remove directory `/home/kristoff/rails\_ sites/website/releases/20060827132215/Website/log/.svn/text-base’ \*\* [out :: [www.paulkristoff.com](http://www.paulkristoff.com)] : No such file or directory \*\* [out :: [www.paulkristoff.com](http://www.paulkristoff.com)] rm: \*\* [out :: [www.paulkristoff.com](http://www.paulkristoff.com)] cannot remove directory `/home/kristoff/rails_ sites/website/releases/20060827132215/Website/log/.svn/tmp/text-base' **[out :: www.paulkristoff.com] : No such file or directory** [out :: www.paulkristoff.com] rm: ** [out :: www.paulkristoff.com] cannot remove directory `/home/kristoff/rails\_ sites/website/releases/20060827132215/Website/db/.svn’ \*\* [out :: [www.paulkristoff.com](http://www.paulkristoff.com)] : No such file or directory \*\* [out :: [www.paulkristoff.com](http://www.paulkristoff.com)] rm: \*\* [out :: [www.paulkristoff.com](http://www.paulkristoff.com)] cannot lstat `/home/kristoff/rails_sites/websi te/releases/20060827132215/Website/components/.svn/tmp/props' **[out :: www.paulkristoff.com] : No such file or directory command finished** [update_code] exception while rolling back: RuntimeError, command "rm -rf /h ome/kristoff/rails_sites/website/releases/20060827132215" failed on www.paulkris toff.com rake aborted! command "rm -rf /home/kristoff/rails_sites/website/releases/20060827132215/log / home/kristoff/rails_sites/website/releases/20060827132215/public/system &&\\\n ln -nfs /home/kristoff/rails_sites/website/shared/log /home/kristoff/rails_sit es/website/releases/20060827132215/log &&\\\n ln -nfs /home/kristoff/rails_si tes/website/shared/system /home/kristoff/rails_sites/website/releases/2006082713 2215/public/system" failed on 69.16.220.210 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capistrano-1.1.0/lib/capistrano/command.rb:4 5:in `pr ocess!’ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capistrano-1.1.0/lib/capistrano/actor.rb:176 :in `run ' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capistrano-1.1.0/lib/capistrano/actor.rb:425 :in `exe cute\_on\_servers’ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capistrano-1.1.0/lib/capistrano/actor.rb:173 :in `run ' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capistrano-1.1.0/lib/capistrano/recipes/stan dard.rb: 72:in `load’ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capistrano-1.1.0/lib/capistrano/actor.rb:125 :in `upd ate_code' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capistrano-1.1.0/lib/capistrano/recipes/stan dard.rb: 141:in `load’ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capistrano-1.1.0/lib/capistrano/actor.rb:329 :in `tra nsaction' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capistrano-1.1.0/lib/capistrano/recipes/stan dard.rb: 140:in `load’ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capistrano-1.1.0/lib/capistrano/actor.rb:125 :in `dep loy' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capistrano-1.1.0/lib/capistrano/cli.rb:246:i n `execu te\_recipes!’ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capistrano-1.1.0/lib/capistrano/cli.rb:246:i n `execu te_recipes!' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capistrano-1.1.0/lib/capistrano/cli.rb:221:i n `execu te!’ ./lib/tasks/capistrano.rake:15:in `cap' ./lib/tasks/capistrano.rake:26 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:387:in `execute’ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:387:in `execute' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:357:in `invoke’ /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/thread.rb:135:in `synchronize' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:350:in `invoke’ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:1906:in `run' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:1906:in `run’ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/bin/rake:7 /usr/bin/rake:18 ---
**Author:** ![paulk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/67e7ee/32.png) [@paulk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/paulk)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2006, 6:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano-problem/66691/2 "2006-08-28T18:41:30Z")
/home/kristoff/rails\_sites/website/shared/system Looks like this is the folder that is missing, public/system symlinks into the this shared system folder… Should have been created when you ran the rake setup… ---
**Author:** ![paulk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/67e7ee/32.png) [@paulk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/paulk)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2006, 10:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano-problem/66691/3 "2006-09-06T10:02:21Z")
J Coppedge wrote: > /home/kristoff/rails\_sites/website/shared/system > > Looks like this is the folder that is missing, public/system symlinks > into the this shared system folder… Should have been created when > you ran the rake setup… I’m also having that problem and I have public/system created. ---
**Author:** ![paulk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/67e7ee/32.png) [@paulk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/paulk)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2006, 8:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano-problem/66691/4 "2006-11-11T20:28:25Z")
I had the same problem. At length I found that my :repository statement was incorrect. It was: set :repository, “[http://www.4thebusiness.com/#{application}](http://www.4thebusiness.com/#%7Bapplication%7D)” This was incorrect because, I have a trunk folder off of my root. So it should have been: set :repository, “[http://www.4thebusiness.com/#{application}/trunk](http://www.4thebusiness.com/#%7Bapplication%7D/trunk)” This resolved the issue. Before the fix it was creating a trunk folder in the releases/2000… and the link statement failed because releases/2000…/public did not exist. On Sep 6, 1:02 am, Paulo A. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)