latest Ruby update broken?

[kevwil]

This morning, I updated my Fedora 6 64-bit VPS. This update upgraded
my Ruby install to 1.8.5 patch114. The Rails version is the latest
release - 1.2.4.

Following this update, I recompiled (gem install xxx) all my gems
which use C extensions (mongrel, postgres, etc.).

I now have the following error log entries all the time, and my blog won't render any content. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Processing ArticlesController#index (for 216.148.96.254 at 2007-10-09 16:59:23) [GET]
  Parameters: {"action"=>"index", "controller"=>"articles"}
Filter chain halted as [#<Proc:0x00002b8aae3edbe0@/var/rails/almostserio.us/current/config/../vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:597>] did not yield.


NoMemoryError (negative allocation size (or too big)):
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:86:in `sprintf'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:86:in `active_record_runtime'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:69:in `perform_action_without_rescue'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/rescue.rb:83:in `perform_action'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb:430:in `send'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb:430:in `process_without_filters'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:624:in `process_without_session_management_support'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/session_management.rb:114:in `process'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb:330:in `process'
    /vendor/rails/railties/lib/dispatcher.rb:41:in `dispatch'
    /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/lib/mongrel/rails.rb:78:in `process'
    /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/lib/mongrel/rails.rb:76:in `synchronize'
    /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/lib/mongrel/rails.rb:76:in `process'
    /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/lib/mongrel.rb:618:in `process_client'
    /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/lib/mongrel.rb:617:in `each'
    /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/lib/mongrel.rb:617:in `process_client'
    /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/lib/mongrel.rb:736:in `run'
    /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/lib/mongrel.rb:736:in `initialize'
    /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/lib/mongrel.rb:736:in `new'
    /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/lib/mongrel.rb:736:in `run'
    /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/lib/mongrel.rb:720:in `initialize'
    /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/lib/mongrel.rb:720:in `new'
    /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/lib/mongrel.rb:720:in `run'
    /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/lib/mongrel/configurator.rb:271:in `run'
    /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/lib/mongrel/configurator.rb:270:in `each'
    /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/lib/mongrel/configurator.rb:270:in `run'
    /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/swiftiply-0.6.1/bin/mongrel_rails:136:in `run'
    /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/lib/mongrel/command.rb:211:in `run'
    /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/swiftiply-0.6.1/bin/mongrel_rails:252
    /usr/bin/mongrel_rails:16:in `load'
    /usr/bin/mongrel_rails:16

[moschel]

has any resolution been found for this problem? I am noticing the exact same issue.

- Brian

[kevwil]

I thought it had somehow been magically fixed, because my site started working a while later, but it has been broken again since yesterday.

[briany]

I am also seeing this error a box that received the updates last week with a new application that I am trying to deploy.

Interestingly enough, we are not getting this on 32bit boxes. It seems to be limited to our 64bit machines, and then only shows up after the application has been running for a few minutes. What about the update would have caused this?

EDIT: Confirmed that it was the update to ruby-1.8.5.113 that broke the code. Downgrading to 1.8.5.52-1.fc6, code runs just fine.

[Andrew Bruce]

I get the same error here on a 64 bit dedicated server running FC6.

How do I go about downgrading? (I'm normally a Debian / Ubuntu user)

[briany]

Originally Posted by Andrew Bruce

How do I go about downgrading? (I'm normally a Debian / Ubuntu user)

Grab the 1.8.5.52 rpms from a fedora mirror (like this one: http://limestone.uoregon.edu/ftp/fed...ates/6/x86_64/), then do "rpm -Uvh --oldpackage <filename1.rpm> <filename2.rpm> ..." . If it complains about conflicting files between versions, you can use the --replacefiles flag.

I had ruby, ruby-libs, ruby-docs, ruby-rdoc, and ruby-irb on my systems. Use "rpm -qa|grep ruby" to see which ruby packages you need to downgrade.