# Need Help on "Virtual Timer Expired" issue

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/need-help-on-virtual-timer-expired-issue/187961>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 3, 2010, 11:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/need-help-on-virtual-timer-expired-issue/187961 "2010-05-03T11:34:09Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 3, 2010, 11:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/need-help-on-virtual-timer-expired-issue/187961/1 "2010-05-03T11:34:09Z")

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Hi Everyone,

I am new to RoR and in the past couple of years, I was mostly involved  
in  
Java/J2EE programming.

I’ve just started learning ruby and rails from the last few days.  
Programming in Ruby on Rails is fun, the one thing I like the most is  
not  
worrying about the boiler plate code implementations that we quite often  
end  
up/setting up while developing any web application. But for some reason,  
I  
found it was not that easy to install RoR on a linux machine like with  
Ubuntu and get it running. I had to spend quite a lot of time to get my  
ruby, rails installed and bring up the webrick server. It doesn’t end  
there,  
I had some older version of e-books for Rails which used to have classic  
pagination and scaffolding stuff which simple doesn’t work on the later  
version of rails. It was quite bit late to realize all these changes in  
place for Rails 2.3.5 but then I managed to come out of every problem  
that I  
faced and was able to build my first rails application. It all went good  
until this error when I tried to create some sessions on the database  
through rake or even for that matter run db:migrate via rake. Even  
running  
rake with ‘trace’ on didn’t helped me much.

```
             *Virtual Timer Expired* (on executing rake

```

db:sessions:create or db:migrate)

As I did some googling around, the only suggestion I finding is  
re-install  
or downgrade ruby version. But it is the last thing I would like to do  
after  
progressing this long.

I will be really glad to hear from you, if there is a better solution to  
fix  
this problem.

The details of my current environment are follows:

OS : Ubuntu Jaunty Jakalope  
Ruby Version : ruby 1.8.6 (2010-02-05 patchlevel 399) [i686-linux]  
Rails Version: Rails 2.3.5  
Rake Version: rake, version 0.8.7  
Database: mysql Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.75, for debian-linux-gnu (i486)  
using  
readline 5.2

Thanks

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**Author:** ![v4\_forums](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/e95f7d/32.png) [@v4\_forums](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/v4_forums)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2010, 6:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/need-help-on-virtual-timer-expired-issue/187961/2 "2010-05-03T18:12:46Z")

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Just a small update, I got this issue fixed by downgrading the version  
of  
‘mysql’ gem that I installed from 2.8.1 to 2.7 and the rake db:migrate  
stopped throwing the ‘Virtual Time Expired’ error.

Thanks