# Peculiar and regular rails crash

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/peculiar-and-regular-rails-crash/146292>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 19, 2008, 8:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/peculiar-and-regular-rails-crash/146292 "2008-08-19T20:55:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![soroe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@soroe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/soroe)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2008, 8:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/peculiar-and-regular-rails-crash/146292/1 "2008-08-19T20:55:19Z")

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Hey Guys,

Has anyone had issues with rails crashing regularly with the error  
message:

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Once his happens, my only recourse is to reboot the mongrel server.

I’ve only seen this on my development puter which is Ubuntu 8.04.  
Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this?

Sonny.