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Segmentation fault in Ruby on Rails, using WEBrick

Asked by: SWB-Consulting

- I am using windows vista 64bit and I have MySQL installed on my computer
- I am following the instructions at http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html
- I did everything down to adding "map.root :controller => "home" " to the routes.rb file
- when i go to http://localhost:3000/ now, most of the time I get the following error:

C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.2/lib/action_controller/request.rb
:341: [BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11) [i386-mswin32]

This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.

Please find the complete log below

D:\data\rails-applications\blog>ruby script/server
=> Booting WEBrick
=> Rails 2.3.2 application starting on http://0.0.0.0:3000
=> Call with -d to detach
=> Ctrl-C to shutdown server
[2009-07-22 18:18:35] INFO  WEBrick 1.3.1
[2009-07-22 18:18:35] INFO  ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11) [i386-mswin32]
[2009-07-22 18:18:35] INFO  WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=4688 port=3000
C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.2/lib/action_controller/request.rb
:341: [BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11) [i386-mswin32]
 
 
This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.

                                  
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by: fridomPosted on 2009-07-23 at 23:21:45ID: 24932566

Hm Webbrick traps while getting started. So this seems to be very much a problem with Webbrick. Maybe you could try
1) another webbrick
2) another ruby version
3) another rails version

but first I'd ask at the mailing list form Webbrick

 

by: SWB-ConsultingPosted on 2009-07-27 at 17:27:07ID: 24957033

No, it actually starts up fine. Then, when I try to request a particular page, it crashes and produces the error above.

 

by: fridomPosted on 2009-07-29 at 22:53:52ID: 24976992

No the log says it starts and immediatly thereafter terminates. If that is not the case then there should be at least some hin that e.g some query has run or was tried to run.And the error happens while
action_controller/request.rb:341: [BUG] Segmentation fault

that suggests IMHO a mismath in versions. As written please try another more actual webbrickwhich can cope with
rails 2.3.2.

Regards
Friedrich

 

by: cminearPosted on 2009-07-30 at 15:06:06ID: 24984818

Just to check our bases, you didn't see any problems while working on Step 4.1 in the guide you are working through?  

I'm not sure it will help, but could you attach development.log (in the log directory) and any other log files with some content (server.log?) in the log directory?

fridom:
Webrick is a standard library in Ruby, so it's version tracks with Ruby (albeit out of synch).

 

by: SWB-ConsultingPosted on 2009-08-24 at 19:56:52ID: 25174287

Yes, absolutely: I am having absolutely no problems starting up the server. It seems as though the server crashes as soon as a database connection is attempted. Attached please find the log files.

 

by: cminearPosted on 2009-08-25 at 07:25:14ID: 25177918

From the development.log file, the true problem can be seen:
  Status: 500 Internal Server Error
  Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061)

To me, this means one of two things:
 - your database is down;
 - your 'config/database.yml' is not configured correctly for your database installation.

I could get the exact same traceback from Rails by either not running 'rake db:create' or purposely misconfiguring the config/database.yml file (although the error line was different).  I didn't seen the segmentation fault, but that is likely an artifact of your Ruby/Rails environment (Windows vs. Linux, different versions of Ruby or Rails).

First, what is your 'config/database.yml' entry for development?  (Please include that if the following does not help.)  If you are using 'socket' like in the Guide, you need to make sure it's the correct file, as /tmp/mysql.sock is likely not correct on your Windows system.  If you are using host/port, first check that MySQL is listening on the same port.  Run 'netstat -an' and look for port 3306.  It would likely look like one of these two lines:
  TCP    0.0.0.0:3306           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
  TCP    127.0.0.1:3306         0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
If there is no line with "3306" in place, then MySQL is either down or not listening on the correct port.  (If you purposely used an alternate port with the install of MySQL, then look for that port.)  Or if there is a like, but the IP address is different, then MySQL is being bound to a specific address and you need to change the database.yml file to correspond.

 

by: SWB-ConsultingPosted on 2009-09-18 at 19:33:12ID: 25371283

ok, i will check that and get back to you

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