Sporadic "sh: locate: not found"

[SirRawlins]

Hello People,

I'm seeing this error in my logs on occasion, and when it occurs my system CPU spikes and sits at 100% until it's restarted. The app can run for days at a time without this being an issue and then all of a sudden it kicks in and starts creating problems.

Sep 12 19:58:30 my-app app/worker.1: sh: locate: not found

I'm currently running active_pdftk (0.1.0) and running pdf-tk through the pdftk-heroku gem.

Any suggestions on what might be causing this would be greatly appreciated. I'm not yet able to determine if this missing locate is causing the CPU spike or vice-versa.

Thanks,

Robert

[elmatou]

If you can tell the path of pdftk you should give it with :path option.
It should solve your issue, as 'locate' is a very common unix binary but with various implementations, and a local db file access wich coul be locked temporarly by other app...

[redrick]

Hi guys,

I ran into same problem, what @elmatou said solves it.
I went with this in my case:

if Rails.env.production?
   ActivePdftk::Wrapper.new(path: '/usr/bin/pdftk')
else
  ActivePdftk::Wrapper.new
end

its just weirdness of my local installation.

but thank you and you can probably close this one done ;)

Thanks :)