Installing diaspora on Mac OS (High Sierra) - (solved)

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I followed the latest Mac OS installation instructions- no errors during installation, but when I run script/server the web (unicorn) doesn’t start. I use mysql as db and apache for web server. I got certificates from Let’s Encrypt.

Not sure what I’m missing, I couldn’t get much from the error messages. I enabled debug for scripts/master and unicorn and I see unicorn is complaining it can’t get configs.

lots of errors for all kind of parameters. Below are the few lines from stderr.log
Exception NameError' at /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.3/usr/lib/ruby/2.3.0/psych/class_loader.rb:68 - uninitialized constant BigDecimal ExceptionNameError’ at /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.3/usr/lib/ruby/2.3.0/psych/core_ext.rb:17 - method to_yaml' not defined in Object ExceptionNameError’ at /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.3/usr/lib/ruby/2.3.0/psych/core_ext.rb:30 - method yaml_as' not defined in Module ExceptionNameError’ at /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.3/usr/lib/ruby/2.3.0/psych/deprecated.rb:82 - undefined method to_yaml_properties' for classObject’
Exception `Configurate::SettingNotFoundError’ at /Users/diaspora/diaspora/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/configurate-0.3.1/lib/configurate/provider.rb:12 - The setting heroku was not found

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I figured it out and now I’m running

It turns out unicorn is not starting up properly with -D, so I updated config/eye.rb to start it normally and then demonize as if in development mode

if rails_env == "production"
#      start_command "#{unicorn_command} -D" # << cemented out
#      daemonize false                                          # << commented out
  start_command unicorn_command. # << new line 
  daemonize true                                # << new line
  restart_command "kill -USR2 {PID}"
  restart_grace 10.seconds
else
  start_command unicorn_command
  daemonize true
end

There’s on more thing, ‘nproc’ is not available on Mac OS X, and script/configure_bundler will fail. You can update it by replacing ‘nproc’ with ‘sysctl -n hw.ncpu’

In script/configure_bundler, line 35:

config(“jobs #{`sysctl -n hw.ncpu`}”)

Here’s the link with all the important instructions. If something there doesn’t work, post here and I’ll update it
https://wiki.diasporafoundation.org/Installation/Mac_OS/High_Sierra

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That’s great to hear. Would you be willing to use your experience to create an installation guide for 10.13 on our wiki? https://wiki.diasporafoundation.org/Installation

You could use the instructions for Mavericks as a basis, and edit it where necessary.

To create a page, simply enter the desired URL and click the ‘create this page’ link. For 10.13, the proper URL would be https://wiki.diasporafoundation.org/Installation/Mac_OS/High_Sierra

Hope that’s OK, and thanks.

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Yes, I’ve been thinking of sharing the experience, will do that.

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