I swore I wouldn't

I recently encountered a cumbersome bug when trying to run a Ruby on Rails application (insoshi-based) on Ubuntu. Sporadically (but typically during events which involved attachment_fu) the server would crash and an error relating to “gc_sweep unknown data type” would show up in the log file. This did not occur in our development environments (Mac OSX) but only in UAT and prod environments (Ubuntu.) After much searching, stumbled upon a bug report that mentioned that this was a problem with ruby 1.8.7 versions prior to patch-level 300. Upgrading to 1.8.7p300 seems to have solved the problem. Will post a follow up if that turns out not to be the case.

Struggled to find this answer when I installed Alfresco on our dev server.  We are running a 64 bit ubuntu installation, and when we try to launch the Alfresco installer, it does nothing.  There is no error, it doesn’t act like it’s working, nothing.  Searching around, I found the following forum that briefly mentions the need for ia32-libs.

Alfresco • View topic – Can’t start the linux community installer in Ubuntu 9.10-b6.

> sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

The problem is now solved.