Package: mongrel
Version: 1.1.1-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
After installing Mongrel, attempting to start it from Rails results in the
following traceback:
Exiting
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/http11.so: /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/http11.so: invalid ELF header -
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/http11.so (LoadError)
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require'
from
/home/dave/ror/fortunes/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:495:in
`require'
from
/home/dave/ror/fortunes/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:342:in
`new_constants_in'
from
/home/dave/ror/fortunes/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:495:in
`require'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/mongrel.rb:16
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
`gem_original_require'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require'
from
/home/dave/ror/fortunes/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:495:in
`require'
... 12 levels...
from
/home/dave/ror/fortunes/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:495:in
`require'
from
/home/dave/ror/fortunes/vendor/rails/railties/lib/commands/server.rb:39
from ./script/server:3:in `require'
from ./script/server:3
Upon investigation, both `file` and `strings` agree:
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/http11.so is a win32 DLL, not an ELF library. As such, it
obviously entirely fails to function on a linux system.
Further investigation shows that a working ELF version of the library is
installed in /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i486-linux/, but the broken DLL version
sitting in /usr/lib/ruby/1.8 takes precedence, and causes Mongrel to fail.
I've attempted to rebuild the package from source, with the same result:
the build process pulls in a win32 version of the library and installs it
in a way that masks the working ELF version. The win32 library is located
in the lib/ subdirectory of the debianized source tree. Removing that copy
and rebuilding results in a working package.
I therefore believe that the precompiled win32 http11.so should be removed
from the package's source tree to fix this.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages mongrel depends on:
ii libc6 2.6.1-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libdaemons-ruby 1.0.8-1 Ruby daemons library
ii libgemplugin-ruby 0.2.2-1 Gem Based Plugin System
ii libgems-ruby1.8 0.9.4-4 libraries to use RubyGems, a packa
ii libruby1.8 1.8.6.111-2 Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1.
ii ruby1.8 1.8.6.111-2 Interpreter of object-oriented scr
mongrel recommends no packages.
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