SystemStackError with gem installs, 1.8.7-p248

Ruby
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Hi,

I upgraded to ruby 1.8.7 p248 yesterday. Since then I’ve started
seeing these error messages on gem installs:

dberger@globe-madison ~>sudo gem install sys-filesystem
Password:
Building native extensions. This could take a while…
Successfully installed sys-filesystem-0.3.2
1 gem installed
ERROR: While executing gem … (SystemStackError)
stack level too deep

The gem appears to install fine. It’s just that final error message
that’s started showing up. I saw the same thing with passenger. Here’s
my environment:

dberger@globe-madison ~>gem env
RubyGems Environment:

  • RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.3.5
  • RUBY VERSION: 1.8.7 (2009-12-24 patchlevel 248) [i686- darwin10.2.0]
  • INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
  • RUBY EXECUTABLE: /usr/local/bin/ruby
  • EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /usr/local/bin
  • RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
    • ruby
    • x86-darwin-10
  • GEM PATHS:
    • /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
    • /Users/dberger/.gem/ruby/1.8
  • GEM CONFIGURATION:
  • REMOTE SOURCES:

Anyone else seeing this? BTW, running with --verbose provided no
additional clues for me.

Regards,

Dan

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On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:41:06PM +0900, Daniel B. wrote:

ERROR: While executing gem … (SystemStackError)
stack level too deep

The gem appears to install fine. It’s just that final error message
that’s started showing up. I saw the same thing with passenger. Here’s
my environment:

Maybe it’s happening when the RDoc gets generated? What version of RDoc
do you have installed?

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On Dec 30, 5:53 pm, Aaron P. [email protected]
wrote:

1 gem installed
ERROR: While executing gem … (SystemStackError)
stack level too deep

The gem appears to install fine. It’s just that final error message
that’s started showing up. I saw the same thing with passenger. Here’s
my environment:

Maybe it’s happening when the RDoc gets generated? What version of RDoc
do you have installed?

Ah, I discovered the problem once I remembered the ‘–debug’ option.
Turns out it’s an issue with yard:

ERROR: While executing gem … (SystemStackError)
stack level too deep
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/yard-0.5.2/lib/rubygems_plugin.rb:
79:in install_ri_yard_orig' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/yard-0.5.2/lib/rubygems_plugin.rb: 79:in install_ri_yard_orig’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/yard-0.4.0/lib/rubygems_plugin.rb:
77:in install_ri' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/doc_manager.rb:109:in generate_ri’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/commands/
install_command.rb:144:in execute' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/commands/ install_command.rb:143:in each’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/commands/
install_command.rb:143:in execute' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/command.rb:257:in invoke’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/command_manager.rb:132:in
process_args' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/command_manager.rb:102:in run’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_runner.rb:58:in `run’
/usr/local/bin/gem:21

I’ll report this to the yard dev.

Regards,

Dan