# Script/process/spawner silently failing

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/script-process-spawner-silently-failing/157943>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 16, 2009, 7:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/script-process-spawner-silently-failing/157943 "2009-01-16T19:53:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Tobias\_Knaup](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@Tobias\_Knaup](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tobias_Knaup)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 7:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/script-process-spawner-silently-failing/157943/1 "2009-01-16T19:53:15Z")

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Hi all,

I set up a standard Capistrano deployment on a new host.  
To start the Mongrels, “script/spin” calls “script/process/spawner  
mongrel”.  
It prints a few lines as if everything were normal, however the  
mongrels are not started and it doesn’t create any files in log or tmp  
that would give me a clue on what happened.  
If I start Mongrel via script/server -e production everything works as  
expected.  
Any hints on where to find debugging output?  
BTW I’m running 2.1.2.

Thanks,

Tobi

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**Author:** ![Tobias\_Knaup](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@Tobias\_Knaup](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tobias_Knaup)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 8:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/script-process-spawner-silently-failing/157943/2 "2009-01-22T20:37:07Z")

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Hello all,

I’m having this exact problem (albeit with rails 2.0.2–I can’t  
upgrade this particular app without breaking things there’s no money  
to fix). Any ideas?

Thanks,

A. Wilson

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**Author:** ![Tobias\_Knaup](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@Tobias\_Knaup](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tobias_Knaup)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 8:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/script-process-spawner-silently-failing/157943/3 "2009-01-22T20:37:07Z")

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I hope this doesn’t double-post.

I have this issue as well. Any ideas?

-A Wilson

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**Author:** ![Tobias\_Knaup](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@Tobias\_Knaup](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tobias_Knaup)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 2:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/script-process-spawner-silently-failing/157943/4 "2009-01-24T14:00:34Z")

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Hi,

I figured out what the problem was in my case.  
It turned out that the mongrel gem hadn’t installed the mongrel\_rails  
executable for some reason.

–  
Tobi