# Mongrel working, mongrel\_cluster not

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-working-mongrel-cluster-not/106988>\
**Category:** Deployment\
**Created:** [June 16, 2007, 4:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-working-mongrel-cluster-not/106988 "2007-06-16T04:17:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![sean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@sean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sean)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2007, 4:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-working-mongrel-cluster-not/106988/1 "2007-06-16T04:17:42Z")

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I just created a test rails app on FC6, and am having very weird  
issues with mongrel cluster. Here’s what I’m doing:

rails test  
sudo chown -R mongrel:mongrel test  
cd test  
sudo mongrel\_rails   
cluster::configure -e production   
-p 8000 -N 3 -a 127.0.0.1 --user mongrel   
–group mongrel

It correctly writes the mongrel\_cluster.yml file to the config  
directory. Now, if I:

sudo mongrel\_rails start -d

Everything works like a charm. I can browse to the site on port 3000  
and everything is both hunky and dory.

However, if I :

sudo mongrel\_rails cluster::start

It tells me it’s starting 3 mongrels, but nothing happens. The  
mongrel log file shows this (apologies for the long listing):

[limbach@larry log]$ cat mongrel.log  
\*\* Daemonized, any open files are closed. Look at  
log/mongrel.8000.pid and log/mongrel.log for info.  
\*\* Starting Mongrel listening at 127.0.0.1:8000  
\*\* Changing group to mongrel.  
\*\* Changing user to mongrel.  
\*\* Starting Rails with production environment…  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:27:in  
`gem_original_require': no such file to load -- /home/limbach/www/test/config/environment (LoadError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/ custom_require.rb:27:in`require’  
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/lib/  
mongrel/rails.rb:155:in  
`rails' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/bin/ mongrel_rails:112:in`cloaker\_’  
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/lib/  
mongrel/configurator.rb:138:in  
`call' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/lib/ mongrel/configurator.rb:138:in`listener’  
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/bin/  
mongrel\_rails:98:in  
`cloaker_' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/lib/ mongrel/configurator.rb:51:in`call’  
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/lib/  
mongrel/configurator.rb:51:in  
`initialize' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/bin/ mongrel_rails:83:in`new’  
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/bin/  
mongrel\_rails:83:in  
`run' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/lib/ mongrel/command.rb:211:in`run’  
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/bin/  
mongrel\_rails:243  
from /usr/local/bin/mongrel\_rails:16:in `load’  
from /usr/local/bin/mongrel\_rails:16

[snip]

That pattern is repeated for each of the three mongrels

In case it helps, here are the gems I’ve got installed:

[limbach@larry log]$ gem list --local

\*\*\* LOCAL GEMS \*\*\*

actionmailer (1.3.3)  
Service layer for easy email delivery and testing.

actionpack (1.13.3)  
Web-flow and rendering framework putting the VC in MVC.

actionwebservice (1.2.3)  
Web service support for Action Pack.

activerecord (1.15.3)  
Implements the ActiveRecord pattern for ORM.

activesupport (1.4.2)  
Support and utility classes used by the Rails framework.

cgi\_multipart\_eof\_fix (2.1)  
Fix an exploitable bug in CGI multipart parsing which affects Ruby  
\<= 1.8.5 when multipart boundary attribute contains a non-halting  
regular expression string.

daemons (1.0.6)  
A toolkit to create and control daemons in different ways

fastercsv (1.2.0)  
FasterCSV is CSV, but faster, smaller, and cleaner.

fastthread (1.0)  
Optimized replacement for thread.rb primitives

gem\_plugin (0.2.2)  
A plugin system based only on rubygems that uses dependencies only

mongrel (1.0.1)  
A small fast HTTP library and server that runs Rails, Camping,  
Nitro  
and Iowa apps.

mongrel\_cluster (0.2.1)  
Mongrel plugin that provides commands and Capistrano tasks for  
managing multiple Mongrel processes.

mysql (2.7)  
MySQL/Ruby provides the same functions for Ruby programs that the  
MySQL C API provides for C programs.

rails (1.2.3)  
Web-application framework with template engine, control-flow  
layer,  
and ORM.

rake (0.7.3)  
Ruby based make-like utility.

sources (0.0.1)  
This package provides download sources for remote gem installation

Thanks in advance for any help.

Sean