Unable to accept socket connection. It looks like Zeus is already running. If not, remove .zeus.sock and try again

Question

Zeus is a great tool when working on a fairly large Rails projects to lower the load time of Rails application and running the test suite. However after sometime I have started to face this problem with all my projects on starting zeus:

I did some research and also tried some of resources to resolve this error but none of them worked. I would be thankful if somebody can point me to the right direction to resolve this issue.

I am on a Mac OSX 10.8.2

Thanks

Answer 1

It's also possible you're in the wrong directory or a directory without a Rails app in it :)

Answer 2

The two comments actually pointed me to the right direction:

If ls-a shows .zeus.sock file than doing a simple remove resolves the issue like this :

rm .zeus.sock

Answer 3

This is solved, but still is very high in google for that particular error, so in hopes of helping someone:

The error can also happen if you're trying to run zeus from a shared directory - for example inside vagrant environment. Use the ZEUSSOCK environment variable to move the sock somewhere else (like /tmp).

See this.