# Passenger no such file to load -- fastthread

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/passenger-no-such-file-to-load-fastthread/169964>\
**Category:** Deployment\
**Created:** [June 10, 2009, 7:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/passenger-no-such-file-to-load-fastthread/169964 "2009-06-10T19:20:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![benol](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@benol](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/benol)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2009, 7:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/passenger-no-such-file-to-load-fastthread/169964/1 "2009-06-10T19:20:35Z")

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Hi,

Passenger does not see fastthread gem even though irb sees it.  
Any help appreciated.

root@mymachine:/home/user1# tail /var/log/apache2/error.log

[Wed Jun 10 19:12:29 2009] [notice] Apache/2.2.11 (Ubuntu) DAV/2  
SVN/1.5.4 Phusion\_Passenger/2.2.2 mod\_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8g  
configured – resuming normal operations  
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:31:in  
`gem_original_require': no such file to load -- fastthread (LoadError) from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in`require’  
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/phusion\_passenger/utils.rb:27  
from /usr/lib/phusion\_passenger/passenger-spawn-server:53:in `require’  
from /usr/lib/phusion\_passenger/passenger-spawn-server:53

root@mymachine:/home/user1# gem list

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

actionmailer (2.3.2)  
actionpack (2.3.2)  
activerecord (2.3.2)  
activeresource (2.3.2)  
activesupport (2.3.2)  
fastthread (1.0.7)  
rails (2.3.2)  
rake (0.8.7)

root@mymachine:/home/user1# irb

irb(main):001:0\> require ‘fastthread’  
=\> true  
irb(main):002:0\>

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**Author:** ![benol](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@benol](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/benol)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2009, 7:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/passenger-no-such-file-to-load-fastthread/169964/2 "2009-06-10T19:42:30Z")

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I got it working, I had the GEM\_PATH and GEM\_HOME inherited from user1  
since i was doing “su” insted of “su -” when logging to root account.

M.