Redmine

- Ruby implementation and version
built from source, ruby 1.8.7 (2009-11-25 patchlevel 225) [i686-linux]
- Rails version (rails --version)
Rails 2.3.4
- Operating system (precise if you're using cygwin when running on Windows)
Ubuntu 9.10 via VirtualBox
- Database used, and its version
mysql Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.83, for debian-linux-gnu (i486) using readline 5.2
- Ruby-aware server used: Webrick, Mongrel, Thin, etc. If you don't understand this point, you're using Webrick.
passenger 2.2.7 (apache 2.2.14)

I'm trying to get Redmine up and running and can't get past step 4.

rake config/initializers/session_store.rb

(in /usr/local/apache2/www/redmine)
rake aborted!
private method `chomp' called for nil:NilClass
/usr/local/apache2/www/redmine/Rakefile:4
(See full trace by running task with --trace)

RAILS_ENV=production rake db:migrate

(in /usr/local/apache2/www/redmine)
rake aborted!
private method `chomp' called for nil:NilClass
/usr/local/apache2/www/redmine/Rakefile:4
(See full trace by running task with --trace)

RAILS_ENV=production script/about

/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/logger.rb:174: private method `chomp' called for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
    from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require'
    from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require'
    from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.4/lib/initializer.rb:1
    from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require'
    from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require'
    from ./script/../config/boot.rb:55:in `load_initializer'
    from ./script/../config/boot.rb:38:in `run'
    from ./script/../config/boot.rb:11:in `boot!'
    from ./script/../config/boot.rb:110
    from script/about:2:in `require'
    from script/about:2

Thanks for any help anyone can offer.