Please all note: Ruby 1.8.6 patchlevel 230 with rails 2.1 on Apache is
completely broken and produces looping behaviour of the ruby
interpreters.
The problem got me busy for some 10 days and now is solved by upgrading
ruby. The following is a working configuration:
Apache 2.2.9, installed from scratch
Passenger 2.0.3, installed from scratch
*** Ruby 1.8.7 patchlevel 71, installed from scratch
Thanx to Frederic Cheung for pointint out possible reasons !
Clemens C.