升级到Ubuntu 18.04后的Rails Console错误

Question

After upgrading from ubuntu 16.04 to ubuntu 18.04 I am receiving the following error when running rails console from the root directory of rails project. Only the console seems to be affected, I am able to start the puma server without issue.

Running via Spring preloader in process 23887
/home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1/gems/activesupport-5.1.6/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:292:in `require': libreadline.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory - /home/user/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.4.1/lib/ruby/2.4.0/x86_64-linux/readline.so (LoadError)
    from /home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1/gems/activesupport-5.1.6/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:292:in `block in require'
    from /home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1/gems/activesupport-5.1.6/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:258:in `load_dependency'
    from /home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1/gems/activesupport-5.1.6/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:292:in `require'
    from /home/user/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.4.1/lib/ruby/2.4.0/irb/completion.rb:10:in `<top (required)>'
    from /home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1/gems/activesupport-5.1.6/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:292:in `require'
    from /home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1/gems/activesupport-5.1.6/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:292:in `block in require'
    from /home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1/gems/activesupport-5.1.6/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:258:in `load_dependency'
    from /home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1/gems/activesupport-5.1.6/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:292:in `require'
    from /home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1/gems/railties-5.1.6/lib/rails/commands/console/console_command.rb:2:in `<top (required)>'
    from /home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1/gems/activesupport-5.1.6/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:292:in `require'
    from /home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1/gems/activesupport-5.1.6/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:292:in `block in require'
    from /home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1/gems/activesupport-5.1.6/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:258:in `load_dependency'
    from /home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1/gems/activesupport-5.1.6/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:292:in `require'
    from /home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1/gems/railties-5.1.6/lib/rails/command/behavior.rb:82:in `block (2 levels) in lookup'
    from /home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1/gems/railties-5.1.6/lib/rails/command/behavior.rb:78:in `each'
    from /home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1/gems/railties-5.1.6/lib/rails/command/behavior.rb:78:in `block in lookup'
    from /home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1/gems/railties-5.1.6/lib/rails/command/behavior.rb:77:in `each'
    from /home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1/gems/railties-5.1.6/lib/rails/command/behavior.rb:77:in `lookup'
    from /home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1/gems/railties-5.1.6/lib/rails/command.rb:68:in `find_by_namespace'
    from /home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1/gems/railties-5.1.6/lib/rails/command.rb:42:in `invoke'
    from /home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1/gems/railties-5.1.6/lib/rails/commands.rb:16:in `<top (required)>'
    from /home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1/gems/activesupport-5.1.6/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:292:in `require'
    from /home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1/gems/activesupport-5.1.6/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:292:in `block in require'
    from /home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1/gems/activesupport-5.1.6/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:258:in `load_dependency'
    from /home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1/gems/activesupport-5.1.6/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:292:in `require'
    from /home/user/dev/projects/SRTrackerMySQL/bin/rails:9:in `<top (required)>'
    from /home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1/gems/activesupport-5.1.6/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:286:in `load'
    from /home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1/gems/activesupport-5.1.6/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:286:in `block in load'
    from /home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1/gems/activesupport-5.1.6/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:258:in `load_dependency'
    from /home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1/gems/activesupport-5.1.6/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:286:in `load'
    from /home/user/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.4.1/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.4.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:59:in `require'
    from /home/user/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.4.1/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.4.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:59:in `require'
    from -e:1:in `<main>'

I've run bundle install and tried it with new rails projects with both Rails 5.1.6 and Rails 5.2

I also tried running RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rails console

I'm using Ruby version:

ruby 2.4.1p111 (2017-03-22 revision 58053) [x86_64-linux]

Answer 1

You need to make sure readline is installed. You're using RVM, so you can run:

rvm requirements

and it should help make sure you have everything installed that you need, followed by:

rvm reinstall 2.4.1

if needed to make sure your ruby is good to go.

Answer 2

I had the same exact issue but we use rbenv instead of rvm . A similar answer to Brian's worked for me:

rbenv uninstall 2.4.1
rbenv install 2.4.1

Answer 3

I had the same problem after upgrading. My guess is the problem happens with the RVM.

so, first uninstall the RVM.

rvm implode

And then, do the following commands to install the RVM again

sudo apt install gnupg2
gpg2 --keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 409B6B1796C275462A1703113804BB82D39DC0E3 7D2BAF1CF37B13E2069D6956105BD0E739499BDB
cd /tmp
curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io -o rvm.sh
less /tmp/rvm.sh
cat /tmp/rvm.sh | bash -s stable --rails
source /home/admat/.rvm/scripts/rvm

Reload the RVM

rvm reload

Install your ruby version

rvm install _version_

Don the bundle command to install gems

bundle install

DONE !!!!!

if you want more details on installing ruby to ubuntu 18.04, try the following link Install ruby on rails with Ubuntu 18.04

Answer 4

I also was not able to run rails console after upgrading Ubuntu from 16.04 to 18.04. I was getting something similar to this:

-bash: error while loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I had to reinstall rvm again following the instructions posted here: https://github.com/rvm/ubuntu_rvm

Answer 5

Reinstalling Ruby and rehashing rbenv didn't work for me. In the end I went for a simple symlink of the current installed libreadline.so7

locate libreadline.so

This returned a whole list of possible options, but the most likely usable one appeared to be /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libreadline.so.7

sudo ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libreadline.so.7 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libreadline.so.6

Once linked, I can now run rails console and use byebug again.

Answer 6

Running the following code on the terminal solved the problem for me:

cd /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
sudo ln -s libreadline.so.7.0 libreadline.so.6