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Unable to start unicorn as a service

  • Posted October 29, 2014

I used the 1-Click Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu 14.04 Image and this guide to setup my rails app: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-the-1-click-ruby-on-rails-on-ubuntu-14-04-image .

However, I downgraded to ruby 1.9.3 using rvm. I also removed the other ruby versions as they appeared to give me some issues.

I’m able to to manually start unicorn using the following command in my rails app root directory:

bundle exec unicorn -D -E “production”

However, when I try to start the unicorn service I receive this error:

service unicorn start

 * Starting Unicorn web server unicorn           
    /usr/bin/env: ruby_executable_hooks: No such file or directory

I’m logged in as root.

I would like to be able to get the service to work so that unicorn starts on reboot.

Thanks.

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pekkle • April 5, 2018

Hey @asb @nurelm @V9lerie @fnllc - in my upgrade from ruby 2.0.0 to 2.3.3, I lost the file that was at /usr/local/rvm/gems/[ruby-#.#.#]/bin/unicorn.

My current issue is that my /etc/default/unicorn file references that file in the DAEMON=/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-#-#-#/bin/unicorn line.

Could I ask one of you to paste yours?

nurelm • December 5, 2014

In case it helps, we had the same issue after downgrading Ruby (and changing /etc/default/unicorn appropriately). Never figured out why this was a problem, but editing the first line of the unicorn executable to include the full path to ruby_executable_hooks fixed it.

In our case, change the first line of /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.0/bin/unicorn from this:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby_executable_hooks

to this:

#!/usr/bin/env /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.0/bin/ruby_executable_hooks

Andrew SB • October 30, 2014

Since you downgraded your version of Ruby, you’ll need to update the Unicorn configuration as well. Edit the file /etc/default/unicorn and change the values for the environmental variables to match the path found by running which ruby:

PATH=/usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.3/bin:/usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p353/bin:/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353/bin:/home/unicorn/.rvm$
export GEM_HOME=/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.3
export GEM_PATH=/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.3:/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.3
DAEMON=/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.3/bin/unicorn