The public-facing pages seem normal. Only the /admin section has become broken.
I tried backing up and reinstalling my mephisto install on one of my sites. I ended up getting an error on the db bootstrapping portion. After doing the following, the rake went through:
1. Fix rake
http://groups.google.com/group/MephistoBlog/browse_thread/thread/286e077b6c49a3b9/f7ab85859dbf7955?lnk=gst&q=undefined+method+%60reset_application!%27+for+class+%60Class%27#f7ab85859dbf7955)
$ cd appDirectory
$ rake rails:freeze:edge REVISION=7472
$ ./script/plugin install http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/plugins/acts_as_list/
$ rake db:bootstrap RAILS_ENV=production
(see socket error)
2. Point to apparently misplaced mysql socket
in siteName/config/database.yml
add line "socket: /var/lib/mysqlsock/mysql.sock"
Interesting is that I've never needed to perform the above in previous installs.
The mephisto site public-facing portion works, but again, the admin is broke even after a fresh install.
Im starting to think this problem is out of my hands... any advice?