# Capistrano Question **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [October 27, 2007, 8:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano-question/118493 "2007-10-27T20:35:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Terry\_D](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@Terry\_D](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Terry_D)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2007, 8:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano-question/118493/1 "2007-10-27T20:35:31Z")
At risk of pissing everyone off, I’ve posted this query to the Capistrano mailing list as well - I’m hoping that posting it here might also reveal some insight: Hi all! I have a rails project that I have deployed many times up to a dreamhost server using Capistrano 1.4.1. I have succesfully deployed with this recipe at least 20 times - probably more. I haven’t done a deployment with this project, though, since late June of this year. When I went to deploy today it failed. I pulled down all the latest stuff for my rails app from subversion into a new directory first. Is there a step I should take before running cap deploy here? My server is already set up properly… Here’s what ‘cap deploy’ spit out: - executing task deploy - executing task update \*\* transaction: start - executing task update\_code - querying latest revision… - executing “if [[ ! -d /home/tdonaghe/joylitest.icuo.us/releases/20071027181905 ]]; then\n svn export --no-auth-cache -q -r187 [http://www.icuo.us/joyli1](http://www.icuo.us/joyli1) /home/tdonaghe/joylitest.icuo.us/releases/20071027181905 &&\n[http://www.icuo.us/joyli1/home/tdonaghe/joylitest.icuo.us/releases/20071027181905&&\n](http://www.icuo.us/joyli1/home/tdonaghe/joylitest.icuo.us/releases/20071027181905&&%5Cn) (test -e /home/tdonaghe/joylitest.icuo.us/revisions.log || (touch /home/tdonaghe/joylitest.icuo.us/revisions.log && chmod 666 /home/tdonaghe/joylitest.icuo.us/revisions.log)) && echo `date +\"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S\"` $USER 187 20071027181905 \>\> /home/tdonaghe/joylitest.icuo.us/revisions.log;\n fi” servers: [“[joylitest.icuo.us](http://joylitest.icuo.us)”] Password: [[joylitest.icuo.us](http://joylitest.icuo.us)] executing command command finished - executing task set\_permissions - executing “chmod -R g+w /home/tdonaghe/joylitest.icuo.us/releases/20071027181905” servers: [“[joylitest.icuo.us](http://joylitest.icuo.us)”] [[joylitest.icuo.us](http://joylitest.icuo.us)] executing command command finished - executing “rm -rf /home/tdonaghe/joylitest.icuo.us/releases/20071027181905/log /home/tdonaghe/joylitest.icuo.us/releases/20071027181905/public/system &&\n ln -nfs /home/tdonaghe/joylitest.icuo.us/shared/log /home/tdonaghe/joylitest.icuo.us/releases/20071027181905/log &&\n ln -nfs /home/tdonaghe/joylitest.icuo.us/shared/system /home/tdonaghe/joylitest.icuo.us/releases/20071027181905/public/system” servers: [“[joylitest.icuo.us](http://joylitest.icuo.us)”] [[joylitest.icuo.us](http://joylitest.icuo.us)] executing command \*\* [out :: [joylitest.icuo.us](http://joylitest.icuo.us)] ln: creating symbolic link `/home/tdonaghe/joylitest.icuo.us/releases/20071027181905/public/system' to `/home/tdonaghe/joylitest.icuo.us/shared/system’: No such file or directory command finished \*\*\* [set\_permissions] transaction: rollback - [set\_permissions] rolling back - [update\_code] rolling back - executing “rm -rf /home/tdonaghe/joylitest.icuo.us/releases/20071027181905” servers: [“[joylitest.icuo.us](http://joylitest.icuo.us)”] [[joylitest.icuo.us](http://joylitest.icuo.us)] executing command command finished command “rm -rf /home/tdonaghe/joylitest.icuo.us/releases/20071027181905/log /home/tdonaghe/joylitest.icuo.us/releases/20071027181905/public/system &&\\n ln -nfs /home/tdonaghe/joylitest.icuo.us/shared/log /home/tdonaghe/joylitest.icuo.us/releases/20071027181905/log &&\\n ln -nfs /home/tdonaghe/joylitest.icuo.us/shared/system /home/tdonaghe/joylitest.icuo.us/releases/20071027181905/public/system” failed on [joylitest.icuo.us](http://joylitest.icuo.us) Can anyone tell by look what happened? Right after the chmod command up near there top, we see an “executing command” and then it finishes. Then for some reason, capistrano removes a bunch of directories. Just after that we see it trying to create a symlink to one of the directories that it previously removed? Does anyone know what’s going on here? Why would it have quit working like this? I’m 99% sure I haven’t changed anything - I’ve gone over and over my deploy.rb file to try to find something wrong, but it all looks good. I can copy and paste that if anyone thinks it would help. I’m hoping I just forgot something stupid. Any help is GREATLY appreciated! – Terry (TAD) Donaghe [http://tadspot.tumblr.com](http://tadspot.tumblr.com) > **[太阳集团0638开头的网址✅【欢迎下载】](http://www.rubynoob.com)** > > 太阳集团0638开头的网址是一家创办历史悠久并且具有非常高的知名度的在线网娱乐平台为大家提供一个良好的彩票交流平台。 READ CAREFULLY. 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**Author:** ![Terry\_D](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@Terry\_D](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Terry_D)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 1:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano-question/118493/2 "2007-10-28T01:50:50Z")
On 2007-10-27 11:34:52 -0700, “Terry D.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) said: > `/home/tdonaghe/joylitest.icuo.us/shared/system’: No such file or directory Capistrano indicates that the deployment directory structure isn’t set up on the server. You could try: cap deploy:setup # Prepares one or more servers for deployment. –Andrew V.