# Project Server not starting. No Errors **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [October 19, 2009, 2:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/project-server-not-starting-no-errors/177489 "2009-10-19T02:27:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![woodzer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/f08c70/32.png) [@woodzer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/woodzer)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 2:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/project-server-not-starting-no-errors/177489/1 "2009-10-19T02:27:50Z")
I apologize if this has been asked before. I’m trying to simply start my server and the only output is as follows… ruby script/server ./script/…/config/boot.rb:26:Warning: Gem::SourceIndex#search support for String patterns is deprecated The server is not started up. Netstat shows nothing listening on port 3000. I haven’t done any changes to the configs at all since it worked. The script is just sitting there. Any quick ideas? Thank you. Peter ---
**Author:** ![woodzer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/f08c70/32.png) [@woodzer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/woodzer)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 4:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/project-server-not-starting-no-errors/177489/2 "2009-10-19T04:38:31Z")
versions? check script\about On Oct 18, 5:27 pm, Peter W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![woodzer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/f08c70/32.png) [@woodzer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/woodzer)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 5:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/project-server-not-starting-no-errors/177489/3 "2009-10-19T05:21:55Z")
Eric wrote: > versions? check script\about > > On Oct 18, 5:27�pm, Peter W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) Eric, Thanks for the reply and the help… This is what script/about reported… About your application’s environment Ruby version 1.8.7 (universal-darwin10.0) RubyGems version 1.3.1 Rails version 1.2.3 Active Record version 1.15.3 Action Pack version 1.13.3 Action Web Service version 1.2.3 Action Mailer version 1.3.3 Active Support version 1.4.2 Application root /Users/peter/Development/RadRails Workspace/rails\_space Environment development Database adapter postgresql Peter ---
**Author:** ![woodzer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/f08c70/32.png) [@woodzer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/woodzer)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 7:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/project-server-not-starting-no-errors/177489/4 "2009-10-19T07:18:37Z")
Hi Peter W. Have you properly setup database? Seems like you have not given username and/or password in database.yml Sijo ---
**Author:** ![woodzer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/f08c70/32.png) [@woodzer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/woodzer)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 7:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/project-server-not-starting-no-errors/177489/5 "2009-10-19T07:41:34Z")
Eric wrote: > The app was written for an older version of rails, do you have those > versions installed? > > -eric > > On Oct 18, 8:21�pm, Peter W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) Eric, I just did a gem list and I do appear to have 1.2.3 installed… rails (2.3.4, 2.2.2, 1.2.6, 1.2.3) The thing is, this was working earlier today. Just all of a sudden. It almost seemed like after I upgraded firefox things started to go bad. I checked what I was running on my laptop and upgraded from 3.0.15 (I think it was) to 3.5. Still the same problem. What also is odd, I’ve copied the project over to my laptop and it works just fine there. I have my DB pointing to my postgres db on the computer I’m having issues with and its just fine (I explicitly set the hostname to the IP of my main computer, not the loopback). Is there any way to just reset things? Is there some sort of rails/ruby cache I can clear? I found the cache in my project under the tmp folder and cleared that… no go. Thanks again for any help. Peter ---
**Author:** ![woodzer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/f08c70/32.png) [@woodzer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/woodzer)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 7:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/project-server-not-starting-no-errors/177489/6 "2009-10-19T07:15:59Z")
The app was written for an older version of rails, do you have those versions installed? -eric On Oct 18, 8:21 pm, Peter W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![woodzer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/f08c70/32.png) [@woodzer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/woodzer)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 7:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/project-server-not-starting-no-errors/177489/7 "2009-10-19T07:43:21Z")
Sijo k g wrote: > Hi Peter W. > > Have you properly setup database? Seems like you have not given > username and/or password in database.yml > > Sijo Sijo, Thanks for the reply. The DB is working properly. It was working earlier today no problem. As I stated above, I copied over my project to my laptop with the hostname of the db set to the IP of my original machine. Everything works just fine. It does seem likes it’s waiting to do something but is stuck. I hit CTRL-C and it then says it’s started up the server. But its not actually running since nothing shows up in netstat and when I try to connect to it via a browser it of course doesn’t work. I’m baffled by this one. Peter ---
**Author:** ![woodzer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/f08c70/32.png) [@woodzer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/woodzer)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 9:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/project-server-not-starting-no-errors/177489/8 "2009-10-20T09:17:18Z")
On Oct 20, 6:19 am, Peter W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Ok this was a tough one. But I have FIXED it. > > Turns out this is a bug in mongrel. Normally I would not have believed > this as this was working just fine before and then suddenly stopped. > Admittedly I can’t remember what little I did to mess it up but I’m > thinking a gem got messed up or a bad one got installed. Good stuff. Something else that may prove problematic: ruby 1.8.7 came out way after rails 1.2.3 and only later versions of rails were marked as being compatible with it (from memory 2.1.something) - you may get odd errors further down the line Fred ---
**Author:** ![woodzer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/f08c70/32.png) [@woodzer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/woodzer)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 7:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/project-server-not-starting-no-errors/177489/9 "2009-10-20T07:19:42Z")
Peter W. wrote: > Sijo k g wrote: > > > Hi Peter W. > > > > Have you properly setup database? Seems like you have not given > > username and/or password in database.yml > > > > Sijo > > Sijo, > > Thanks for the reply. The DB is working properly. It was working earlier > today no problem. As I stated above, I copied over my project to my > laptop with the hostname of the db set to the IP of my original machine. > Everything works just fine. > > It does seem likes it’s waiting to do something but is stuck. I hit > CTRL-C and it then says it’s started up the server. But its not actually > running since nothing shows up in netstat and when I try to connect to > it via a browser it of course doesn’t work. > > I’m baffled by this one. > > Peter Ok this was a tough one. But I have FIXED it. Turns out this is a bug in mongrel. Normally I would not have believed this as this was working just fine before and then suddenly stopped. Admittedly I can’t remember what little I did to mess it up but I’m thinking a gem got messed up or a bad one got installed. Here’s the website that helped me out… [http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/ticket/37](http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/ticket/37) There’s a bunch of weird links are you go through the comments about n1ke (had to put in a 1 there since ruby-forum thought I was spamming) shoes and stuff… Ignore that. In fact don’t bother reading past the attachments section. Click on it or go to this link which is the patch file. I didn’t bother grabbing the patch I just fixed it manually… Link is here… [http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/attachment/ticket/37/37-fix-infinite-loop-error-in-gem-require.patch](http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/attachment/ticket/37/37-fix-infinite-loop-error-in-gem-require.patch) You’ll noticed that they replaced the “retry” with “Kernel.require library”. I guess Mongrel can go into an infinite loop if it see a gem installed but the file inside it doesn’t exist (at least that’s what I read). Anyway I edited the bad file and it works great now. On my mac the file existed here and use sudo vi to edit it (here’s the entire commandline command)… sudo vi /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5/bin/…/lib/mongrel/gems.rb You’ll notice it goes back a directory between bin and lib. This was a copy paste I grabbed. I guess you could just cut out the bin/…/ and just shove in the rest starting at lib. 🙂 Anyway, I’m fairly new to ruby and rails and am just trying to learn. This was a baffling mystery to me and I thought it was all in my code. I re-installed ruby, rails, mongrel, postgres, etc… many times without success… I hope this helps someone else who runs into this in the future. It was frustrating. It’s not often the error is not in your own code. 🙂 (Although granted I must’ve screwed up a gem somehow for this bug to surface only on this one computer. 🙂 ) Thanks for the prior responses as well. Pete