# Excessive Errno::EBADF with dispatch.fcgi **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [March 13, 2006, 5:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/excessive-errno-ebadf-with-dispatch-fcgi/102882 "2006-03-13T17:11:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![noagenda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/8c91f0/32.png) [@noagenda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/noagenda)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 5:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/excessive-errno-ebadf-with-dispatch-fcgi/102882/1 "2006-03-13T17:11:27Z")
I’m running Ruby on Rails via FastCGI in an Apache environment, and I get the following error, a lot. (from log/fastcgi.crash.log) [13/Mar/2006:15:52:51 :: 94704] Dispatcher failed to catch: Bad file descriptor (Errno::EBADF) /usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/fcgi.rb:38:in `close' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/fcgi.rb:38:in`each’ /usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/fcgi.rb:597:in `each_cgi' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:52:in`process!’ /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/fcgi\_handler.rb:22:in `process!' "fastcgi.crash.log" 2204L, 143144C /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/fcgi.rb:113:in`accept’ /usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/fcgi.rb:113:in `session' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/fcgi.rb:104:in`each\_request’ /usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/fcgi.rb:36:in `each' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/fcgi.rb:597:in`each\_cgi’ /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/fcgi\_handler.rb:52:in `process!' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:22:in`process!’ /usr/local/apache/htdocs/utctelecom2006/dispatch.fcgi:24 almost killed by this error By a lot, I mean about every five seconds, which makes for log files getting into the 100+meg size pretty swiftly. The site appears to be working fine. My best guess is that since I’m hosting stuff out of /www/railsapps/ where /www is a symlink to usr/local/apache and I in turn symlink /www/railsapps//public to a directory in htdocs - there’s a lot of symlinks. I’ve seen file\_column get a bit confused with this before, so my guess is that the same thing is happening to fcgi. I don’t see any 404 errors in my log files, just notifications that the fastcgi process exited. I’m thinking I might just symlink fastcgi.crash.log to /dev/null, but I’d prefer getting to the bottom of it or even just catching EBADF in dispatch.fcgi. Any ideas on the list? –James ---
**Author:** ![noagenda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/8c91f0/32.png) [@noagenda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/noagenda)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 3:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/excessive-errno-ebadf-with-dispatch-fcgi/102882/2 "2006-03-28T15:36:50Z")
Met similar error (Bad file descriptor, crashing repeatedly and very fast) when I first setup my lighttpd + fcgi. Solved it by setting up my RAILS\_ENV properly - I’d meant to use “production”. My “development” environment didn’t have a proper database connection configured… am guessing that’s why it keeps crashing. Hope that helps. ---
**Author:** ![noagenda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/8c91f0/32.png) [@noagenda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/noagenda)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 4:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/excessive-errno-ebadf-with-dispatch-fcgi/102882/3 "2006-04-03T16:07:29Z")
choonkeat wrote: > Met similar error (Bad file descriptor, crashing repeatedly and very > fast) > when I first setup my lighttpd + fcgi. > > Solved it by setting up my RAILS\_ENV properly - I’d meant to use > “production”. > My “development” environment didn’t have a proper database connection > configured… am guessing that’s why it keeps crashing. > > Hope that helps. Well, by all appearances it seems to be talking to the right database and working properly in all other areas, except for that error. My best guess is that it’s due to all of the symlinking I have going on, or some file I keep referencing that isn’t there.