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Well, I'm working on deploying another little Rails app, but I've hit an unexpected snag. I fired up a fresh Ubuntu server for this one, brought in all the latest bits, and now Capistrano is not playing nicely with it. I'm hitting the exact symptoms described in this message but as no one has posted an answer knowing that the symptoms are not unique doesn't do me a whole boatload of good.

I could perhaps shove it on to the same server I'm using for other things, but there's a limit to how many mongrel instances I want to spin up on a single server when I have tons of unused computing capacity sitting around. Two differences between the servers may be salient - the working server is Ubuntu server and Capistrano , while the one that is being crabby is Ubuntu desktop and Capistrano 1.4.1. I suspect it's the Capistrano version that's making the difference 1.4.0, but what do I know? Not much.

I'd be grateful for any suggestions.