I am doing all this from the root account.

I have followed this guide: <https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-rails-apache-and-mysql-on-ubuntu-with-passenger>

I have tried mounting extra swap space since server only has 512MB of RAM (half shared, half "mine").

I have installed the software the passenger installation guide was depending on.

When I run `passenger-install-apache2-module` and `rvmsudo passenger-install-nginx-module` I get all green during the checks and then the last thing that happens before it always stalls for a long time and then kicks me out of the ssh session: 

```
mkdir -p buildout/common/libpassenger_common/ApplicationPool2
g++ -Iext -Iext/common -Iext/libev -Wno-ambiguous-member-template -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/local/include -DHAS_TR1_UNORDERED_MAP -DHAVE_ACCEPT4 -DHAS_ALLOCA_H -DHAS_SFENCE -DHAS_LFENCE -Wall -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-parentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -Wno-long-long -Wno-missing-field-initializers -ggdb -DPASSENGER_DEBUG -DBOOST_DISABLE_ASSERTS -fcommon -feliminate-unused-debug-symbols -feliminate-unused-debug-types -fvisibility=hidden -DVISIBILITY_ATTRIBUTE_SUPPORTED -Wno-attributes -o buildout/common/libpassenger_common/ApplicationPool2/Implementation.o -c ext/common/ApplicationPool2/Implementation.cpp
Write failed: Broken pipe

```

I am pulling hair but it doesn't help much. There doesn't seem to be any trace of this problem using my google-fu so I'm guessing I FUBAR'd the server at an earlier point. But I have really only tried to install rails so there's not a lot of other things on it. 

I have ruby on RVM, if that matters.

Any ideas?

*edit: ps xfawww output:*

```
  PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
    2 ?        S      0:00 [kthreadd]
    3 ?        S      0:01  \_ [ksoftirqd/0]
    4 ?        S      0:00  \_ [kworker/0:0]
    5 ?        S      0:00  \_ [kworker/u:0]
    6 ?        S      0:00  \_ [migration/0]
    7 ?        S      0:02  \_ [watchdog/0]
    8 ?        S      0:00  \_ [migration/1]
    9 ?        S      0:00  \_ [kworker/1:0]
   10 ?        S      0:01  \_ [ksoftirqd/1]
   11 ?        S      0:01  \_ [watchdog/1]
   12 ?        S      0:00  \_ [migration/2]
   13 ?        S      0:00  \_ [kworker/2:0]
   14 ?        S      0:01  \_ [ksoftirqd/2]
   15 ?        S      0:01  \_ [watchdog/2]
   16 ?        S      0:00  \_ [migration/3]
   17 ?        S      0:00  \_ [kworker/3:0]
   18 ?        S      0:01  \_ [ksoftirqd/3]
   19 ?        S      0:01  \_ [watchdog/3]
   20 ?        S<     0:00  \_ [cpuset]
   21 ?        S<     0:00  \_ [khelper]
   22 ?        S      0:00  \_ [kdevtmpfs]
   23 ?        S<     0:00  \_ [netns]
   24 ?        S      0:00  \_ [kworker/u:1]
   25 ?        S      0:00  \_ [xenwatch]
   26 ?        S      0:00  \_ [xenbus]
   27 ?        S      0:03  \_ [sync_supers]
   28 ?        S      0:00  \_ [bdi-default]
   29 ?        S<     0:00  \_ [kintegrityd]
   30 ?        S<     0:00  \_ [kblockd]
   31 ?        S      0:07  \_ [kworker/2:1]
   32 ?        S<     0:00  \_ [ata_sff]
   33 ?        S      0:00  \_ [khubd]
   34 ?        S<     0:00  \_ [md]
   36 ?        S      0:00  \_ [khungtaskd]
   37 ?        D      0:12  \_ [kswapd0]
   38 ?        SN     0:00  \_ [ksmd]
   39 ?        S      0:00  \_ [fsnotify_mark]
   40 ?        S      0:00  \_ [ecryptfs-kthrea]
   41 ?        S<     0:00  \_ [crypto]
   49 ?        S<     0:00  \_ [kthrotld]
   50 ?        S      0:00  \_ [khvcd]
   51 ?        S      0:07  \_ [kworker/1:1]
   70 ?        S<     0:00  \_ [devfreq_wq]
   94 ?        S      0:07  \_ [kworker/0:1]
  163 ?        S      0:07  \_ [kworker/3:1]
  204 ?        S      0:01  \_ [kjournald]
  612 ?        S      0:02  \_ [flush-202:1]
    1 ?        Ss     0:00 /sbin/init
  273 ?        S      0:00 upstart-udev-bridge --daemon
  287 ?        Ss     0:00 /sbin/udevd --daemon
  376 ?        S      0:00  \_ /sbin/udevd --daemon
  389 ?        S      0:00  \_ /sbin/udevd --daemon
  394 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd -D
16303 ?        Ss     0:00  \_ sshd: root@pts/0    
16320 pts/0    Ss     0:00  |   \_ -bash
16580 pts/0    Sl+    0:00  |       \_ /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247/bin/passenger-install-apache2-module                                                                 
16702 pts/0    Sl+    0:00  |           \_ /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247@global/bin/rake                                                                                                   
17120 pts/0    S+     0:00  |               \_ g++ -Iext -Iext/common -Iext/libev -Wno-ambiguous-member-template -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/local/include -DHAS_TR1_UNORDERED_MAP -DHAVE_ACCEPT4 -DHAS_ALLOCA_H -DHAS_SFENCE -DHAS_LFENCE -Wall -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-parentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -Wno-long-long -Wno-missing-field-initializers -ggdb -DPASSENGER_DEBUG -DBOOST_DISABLE_ASSERTS -fcommon -feliminate-unused-debug-symbols -feliminate-unused-debug-types -fvisibility=hidden -DVISIBILITY_ATTRIBUTE_SUPPORTED -Wno-attributes -o buildout/common/libpassenger_common/ApplicationPool2/Implementation.o -c ext/common/ApplicationPool2/Implementation.cpp
17121 pts/0    D+     0:05  |                   \_ /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6/cc1plus -quiet -I ext -I ext/common -I ext/libev -I /usr/local/include -imultilib . -imultiarch x86_64-linux-gnu -D_GNU_SOURCE -D _REENTRANT -D HAS_TR1_UNORDERED_MAP -D HAVE_ACCEPT4 -D HAS_ALLOCA_H -D HAS_SFENCE -D HAS_LFENCE -D PASSENGER_DEBUG -D BOOST_DISABLE_ASSERTS -D VISIBILITY_ATTRIBUTE_SUPPORTED ext/common/ApplicationPool2/Implementation.cpp -quiet -dumpbase Implementation.cpp -mtune=generic -march=x86-64 -auxbase-strip buildout/common/libpassenger_common/ApplicationPool2/Implementation.o -ggdb -Wno-ambiguous-member-template -Wall -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-parentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -Wno-long-long -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wno-attributes -fcommon -feliminate-unused-debug-symbols -feliminate-unused-debug-types -fvisibility=hidden -fstack-protector -o /tmp/ccYZpm8l.s
16967 ?        Ss     0:00  \_ sshd: root@pts/1    
16986 pts/1    Ss     0:00      \_ -bash
17128 pts/1    R+     0:00          \_ ps xfawww
  429 ?        S      0:00 upstart-socket-bridge --daemon
  441 ?        Ss     0:00 dbus-daemon --system --fork --activation=upstart
  466 ?        Sl     0:35 rsyslogd -c5
  517 tty4     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty4
  521 tty5     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty5
  529 tty2     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty2
  530 tty3     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty3
  532 tty6     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty6
  534 ?        Ss     0:00 acpid -c /etc/acpi/events -s /var/run/acpid.socket
  540 ?        Ss     0:00 cron
  541 ?        Ss     0:00 atd
  550 ?        S      0:22 /usr/bin/daemon --pidfile /var/run/pagekite.pid.wrapper --noconfig --unsafe --respawn --delay=60 --name=pagekite -- /usr/bin/pagekite --pidfile /var/run/pagekite.pid --clean --runas=daemon:daemon --logfile=/var/log/pagekite/pagekite.log --optdir=/etc/pagekite.d --noloop
  585 hvc0     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 hvc0
  587 tty1     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty1

```