Hi,
I have GraphicsMagick and RMagick installed on OS X along with ghostscript to act as the postscript delegate for GM. All latest versions.
If I run...
im = Magick::Image::read("/testbarcode.eps").first
within script/console it returns fine. However the same line in my rails controller only seems to work very intermittently. Usually in small consecutive runs but then broken for the next however many requests until it decides it wants to work again.
When it fails, the output in the browser advise "Postscript delegate failed" and Mongrel running the app in development mode outputs the following to the console.
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/transaction-simple-1.4.0/lib/ transaction/simple.rb:46: warning: already initialized constant Messages /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/transaction-simple-1.4.0/lib/ transaction/simple.rb:53: warning: already initialized constant TRANSACTION_SIMPLE_VERSION /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/transaction-simple-1.4.0/lib/ transaction/simple.rb:436: warning: already initialized constant SKIP_TRANSACTION_VARS
Magick: "gs" -q -dBATCH -dMaxBitmap=50000000 -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pnmraw -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 -g147x100 -r72x72 - sOutputFile=/var/tmp/gmmrDOYU -- "/var/tmp/gmspCKzg" -c quit (terminated due to signal 26).
Magick: "gs" -q -dBATCH -dMaxBitmap=50000000 -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pnmraw -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 -g147x100 -r72x72 - sOutputFile=/var/tmp/gmmrDOYU -- "/var/tmp/gmspCKzg" -c quit (terminated due to signal 26).
It seems as if something is being locked or some resource is tied up and it only starts working again when something times out. It is also strange that outside of the ActionController it seems to work as expected. Closing and restarting Mongrel seems to have little effect.
Does anyone have any ideas why this might be happening?
Thanks, Andrew.