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    copied!<p>I am in the process of setting up a server to run a Ruby on Rails application on Fedora 12, using Passenger.</p> <p>I am at the stage where I've installed Passenger, set it up as prescribed, but get the following errors when I restart Apache:</p> <pre><code>[Wed Jan 13 15:41:38 2010] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down [Wed Jan 13 15:41:40 2010] [notice] SELinux policy enabled; httpd running as context unconfined_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0 [Wed Jan 13 15:41:40 2010] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec) [Wed Jan 13 15:41:40 2010] [error] *** Passenger could not be initialized because of this error: Cannot create FIFO file /tmp/passenger.25235/.guard: Permission denied (13) [Wed Jan 13 15:41:40 2010] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ... [Wed Jan 13 15:41:40 2010] [notice] Digest: done [Wed Jan 13 15:41:40 2010] [error] *** Passenger could not be initialized because of this error: Cannot create FIFO file /tmp/passenger.25235/.guard: Permission denied (13) [Wed Jan 13 15:41:40 2010] [error] python_init: Python version mismatch, expected '2.6', found '2.6.2'. [Wed Jan 13 15:41:40 2010] [error] python_init: Python executable found '/usr/bin/python'. [Wed Jan 13 15:41:40 2010] [error] python_init: Python path being used '/usr/lib/python26.zip:/usr/lib/python2.6/:/usr/lib/python2.6/plat-linux2:/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-tk:/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-old:/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload'. [Wed Jan 13 15:41:40 2010] [notice] mod_python: Creating 4 session mutexes based on 256 max processes and 0 max threads. [Wed Jan 13 15:41:40 2010] [notice] mod_python: using mutex_directory /tmp [Wed Jan 13 15:41:40 2010] [notice] Apache/2.2.14 (Unix) DAV/2 Phusion_Passenger/2.2.9 PHP/5.3.0 mod_python/3.3.1 Python/2.6.2 mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/1.0.0-fips-beta3 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.0 configured -- resuming normal operations </code></pre> <p>As you can see, there is a permissions problem when Passenger is trying to initialize:</p> <pre><code>[Wed Jan 13 15:41:40 2010] [error] *** Passenger could not be initialized because of this error: Cannot create FIFO file /tmp/passenger.25235/.guard: Permission denied (13) </code></pre> <p>When Apache is starts, it does create a file in /tmp:</p> <pre><code>d-ws--x--x. 2 root root 4096 2010-01-13 16:04 passenger.26117 </code></pre> <p>If instead I run the app by firing up <em>mongrel</em> directly with <code>mongrel_rails start -e production</code>, I see the following:</p> <pre><code>ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid (Mysql::Error: Can't create/write to file '/tmp/#sql_5d3_0.MYI' (Errcode: 13): SHOW FIELDS FROM `users`): </code></pre> <p>Again the error points to permission issues with the <em>/tmp</em> directory.</p> <p>I am at a loss as to what the solution is. I'm not sure if it is related to simply directory permissions or Fedora's SELinux security.</p> <p>Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.</p>
 

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