# Gem hanging in Windows

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-hanging-in-windows/163054>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 17, 2009, 12:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-hanging-in-windows/163054 "2009-03-17T00:47:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![wickie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@wickie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wickie)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 12:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-hanging-in-windows/163054/1 "2009-03-17T00:47:29Z")

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I’m trying to setup an environment on a Windows XP machine. Note: I do  
(almost) all my work in Linux.

I’m trying to run a “gem install” on the Windows box. Immediately after  
the command, I get the message:

“Bulk updating Gem source index for [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org)”

At that point, it appears to hang. On the chance that it was just  
running very slowly, I’ve allowed this to sit there for 4 hours (so  
far), but it’s not continuing.

Any ideas on how to proceed?

—Michael

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**Author:** ![wickie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@wickie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wickie)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 4:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-hanging-in-windows/163054/2 "2009-03-17T04:17:13Z")

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Perhaps windows firewall or another fw is blocking the server? (McFagee  
errrr I mean McAfee)… Norton (lol.)

Try running gem update --system and see if that doesn’t go through.

- Mac

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**Author:** ![wickie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@wickie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wickie)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 10:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-hanging-in-windows/163054/3 "2009-03-17T22:26:37Z")

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Can you ping the repository?

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**Author:** ![wickie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@wickie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wickie)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 7:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-hanging-in-windows/163054/4 "2009-03-17T19:31:11Z")

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Michael L. wrote:

> Perhaps windows firewall or another fw is blocking the server? (McFagee  
> errrr I mean McAfee)… Norton (lol.)
> 
> Try running gem update --system and see if that doesn’t go through.

This hung as well. Thanks for the idea, though.

—Michael

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**Author:** ![wickie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@wickie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wickie)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 11:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-hanging-in-windows/163054/5 "2009-03-17T23:14:29Z")

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On Mar 16, 2009, at 16:45, Michael S. wrote:

> running very slowly, I’ve allowed this to sit there for 4 hours (so  
> far), but it’s not continuing.
> 
> Any ideas on how to proceed?

Upgrade RubyGems manually (search ‘manually’):

[http://rubyforge.org/frs/shownotes.php?group\_id=126&release\_id=27655](http://rubyforge.org/frs/shownotes.php?group_id=126&release_id=27655)