Below is the content of my backgroundrb_server_11007.log This seems to happen in a non-repeatable way - so every 2 days or sometimes after 4-5 days, my b/g process dies with this error. Is this something anyone else has seen - any fixes? Thanks, Raghu ===============true /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/packet-0.1.5/lib/packet/packet_core.rb:145:in `schedule_write'': You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it! (NoMethodError) The error occurred while evaluating nil.instance from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/packet-0.1.5/lib/packet/packet_nbio.rb:57:in `write_and_schedule'' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/active_support/whiny_nil.rb:35:in `each_with_index'' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/packet-0.1.5/lib/packet/packet_nbio.rb:51:in `each'' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/packet-0.1.5/lib/packet/packet_nbio.rb:51:in `each_with_index'' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/packet-0.1.5/lib/packet/packet_nbio.rb:51:in `write_and_schedule'' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/packet-0.1.5/lib/packet/packet_nbio.rb:72:in `dump_object'' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/packet-0.1.5/lib/packet/packet_worker.rb:31:in `send_data'' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/packet-0.1.5/lib/packet/packet_worker.rb:40:in `send_request'' ... 22 levels... from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/packet-0.1.5/lib/packet/packet_master.rb:20:in `run'' from /home/raghus/public_html/ feedflix.com/ff/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/server/lib/master_worker.rb:166:in`initialize'' from ./script/backgroundrb:42:in `new'' from ./script/backgroundrb:42 ===============-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/backgroundrb-devel/attachments/20080614/80595415/attachment-0001.html>