Can't restart unicorn

[bscott]

When running deploy, see weird output from the unicorn task

INFO[5c90314d] Running /usr/bin/env sudo /etc/init.d/nginx reload on x.x.x.x
DEBUG[5c90314d] Command: /usr/bin/env sudo /etc/init.d/nginx reload
DEBUG[5c90314d]      * Reloading nginx configuration nginx       
DEBUG[5c90314d]     [80G
DEBUG[5c90314d]      
DEBUG[5c90314d]     
DEBUG[5c90314d]     [74G
DEBUG[5c90314d]     [ OK ]
DEBUG[5c90314d]     
INFO[5c90314d] Finished in 0.134 seconds with exit status 0 (successful).
INFO[93cdc175] Running /usr/bin/env service  restart on x.x.x.x
DEBUG[93cdc175] Command: /usr/bin/env service  restart
DEBUG[93cdc175]     restart: unrecognized service
DEBUG[93cdc175]     
cap aborted!

[bruno-]

Hey, thanks for reporting.
I've never had this issue before so I'll need your help in debugging this.

• are you deploying a rails app?
• which capistrano-unicorn-nginx gem version are you using?
• pasting other files (Capfile, deploy.rb, production.rb) to a service like gist or http://pastie.org/ would be useful
• did you update the value of unicorn_service option somewhere? Example set :unicorn_service, "something"?

Unicorn restart task is really simple, it's just one line really, here.

It seems you're missing the value from the unicorn_service option. By default it should be something like: "unicorn_appname_production".
I'm guessing you overrode that somewhere?

[thejchap]

For what its worth I ran into this too and the 'no such service' wasn't what was actually wrong...it was just the last thing in the logs before something else broke (found in app/shared/log/unicorn.stderr.log)