On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Wojciech Knapik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi everyone > > I just spent way too much time trying to figure out why the fsck bdrb > wouldn't run in background (while it worked perfecly in foreground), so I > figured I'll share my unimpressive solution to save others the trouble. > So the problem was that bdrb, when started with `script/backgroundrb > start`, would exit, with this error msg: > > /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb:150:in > `log': PGError: server closed the connection unexpectedly > (ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid) > This probably means the server terminated abnormally > before or while processing the request. > : SELECT tablename > FROM pg_tables > WHERE schemaname IN (E'"$user"',E'public') > from > /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb:395:in > `query' > from > /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb:441:in > `tables' > > Starting it with `script/backgroundrb` didn't cause that problem, > everything worked fine. > This happened exactly the same way on a G5/OSX/Postgres 8.2.4/Rails 2.0.2 > workstation and a Xeon/Gentoo/Postgres 8.3.1/Rails 2.0.2 server. Considering > the different setups and the complete lack of complaints from Postgres, even > with highest logging verbosity AND the smoothly working rails app, I figured > it must be a problem with backgroundrb, but whatever changes I tried, > nothing worked. So fast forward (to spare you the story of the cursing and > the hopeless googling) - here's the solution - line 32 of > script/backgroubdrb: > > 29 case ARGV[0] > 30 when 'start' > 31 if fork > 32 sleep(5) > 33 exit > 34 else > > Apparently leaving the child on it's own too early is not a good thing :-o > So there. Here's my good deed for the day. >
Damn right! Thanks man. -- Let them talk of their oriental summer climes of everlasting conservatories; give me the privilege of making my own summer with my own coals. http://gnufied.org _______________________________________________ Backgroundrb-devel mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/backgroundrb-devel
