** !!! PID file log/mongrel.8000.pid already exists. Mongrel could be running already. Check your log/mongrel.log for errors.
Sometimes things just don’t want to work acording to plan, the message above is basically saying that the mongrel rails server is being lazy and not cleaning up after re-booting itself.
Some things just love to play with your sanity,
To fix this, I hunted the web and found an appropriate patch, hope it works for you if you run into this,
Mongrel Patch from TextSnippets
Basic Maintenance
to see your currently running processes type,
ps -aux
you can kill any of them by using their process id’s and the kill command
kill 11
to backup your database type,
mysqldump -u root mydb > dump.sql
to reboot your server
shutdown -r now
also there’s a much nicer in-line text editor than VI, called nano…
nano [file]
Till next time,
John.
