It’s usually some method called on a very large negative Fixnum. Note
below how different install runs produce different errors. (Who said
that computers were deterministic?)
[sliver:~/Desktop] gkistner$ sudo gem install facets
Successfully installed facets-1.7.46
Installing ri documentation for facets-1.7.46…
ERROR: While executing gem … (NoMethodError)
undefined method `empty?’ for -517611318:Fixnum
[sliver:~/Desktop] gkistner$ sudo gem uninstall facets
Successfully uninstalled facets version 1.7.46
[sliver:~/Desktop] gkistner$ sudo gem install facets --backtrace
ERROR: While executing gem … (NoMethodError)
undefined method shift' for -517611318:Fixnum /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package.rb:87:innew_from_stream’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package.rb:441:in
each_entry' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package.rb:439:inloop’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package.rb:439:in
each_entry' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package.rb:424:ineach’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package.rb:591:in each' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package.rb:411:innew’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package.rb:590:in each' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package.rb:445:ineach_entry’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package.rb:439:in loop' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package.rb:439:ineach_entry’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package.rb:424:in each' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package.rb:586:ineach’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/format.rb:62:in from_io' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package.rb:579:inopen_from_io’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package.rb:801:in
open_from_io' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/format.rb:59:infrom_io’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/format.rb:47:in
from_file_by_path' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/installer.rb:62:ininstall’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/remote_installer.rb:444:in
install' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_commands.rb:258:inexecute’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_commands.rb:220:in
each' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_commands.rb:220:inexecute’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/command.rb:69:in invoke' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/cmd_manager.rb:117:inprocess_args’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/cmd_manager.rb:88:in run' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_runner.rb:29:inrun’
/usr/local/bin/gem:23
[sliver:~/Desktop] gkistner$ sudo gem uninstall facets
ERROR: While executing gem … (RuntimeError)
Unknown RubyGem: facets (> 0)
[sliver:~/Desktop] gkistner$ sudo gem install facets --backtrace
Successfully installed facets-1.7.46
Installing ri documentation for facets-1.7.46…
RDoc failure in lib/facets/more/cookie.rb at or around line 336 column
-517618807
Before reporting this, could you check that the file
you’re documenting compiles cleanly–RDoc is not a
full Ruby parser, and gets confused easily if fed
invalid programs.
The internal error was:
While generating documentation for facets-1.7.46
… MESSAGE: unget past beginning of file
… RDOC args: --ri --op
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/doc/facets-1.7.46/ri --quiet lib
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/parsers/parse_rb.rb:395:in ungetc' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/parsers/parse_rb.rb:508:inungetc’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/slex.rb:234:in match_io' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/slex.rb:222:inmatch_io’
(continuing with the rest of the installation)
Installing RDoc documentation for facets-1.7.46…
ERROR: While executing gem … (NoMethodError)
undefined method postproc' for -517611318:Fixnum /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/slex.rb:135:increate_subnode’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/slex.rb:147:in create_subnode' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/slex.rb:67:increate’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/slex.rb:39:in def_rule' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/slex.rb:47:indef_rules’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/slex.rb:46:in each' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/slex.rb:46:indef_rules’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/parsers/parse_rb.rb:714:in lex_init' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/parsers/parse_rb.rb:448:ininitialize’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/parsers/parse_rb.rb:1393:in new' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/parsers/parse_rb.rb:1393:ininitialize’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/parsers/parserfactory.rb:96:in new' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/parsers/parserfactory.rb:96:inparser_for’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/rdoc.rb:209:in parse_files' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/rdoc.rb:203:ineach’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/rdoc.rb:203:in parse_files' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/rdoc.rb:246:indocument’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/doc_manager.rb:101:in
run_rdoc' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/doc_manager.rb:80:ininstall_rdoc’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/doc_manager.rb:58:in
generate_rdoc' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_commands.rb:289:inexecute’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_commands.rb:288:in
each' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_commands.rb:288:inexecute’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_commands.rb:220:in
each' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_commands.rb:220:inexecute’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/command.rb:69:in invoke' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/cmd_manager.rb:117:inprocess_args’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/cmd_manager.rb:88:in run' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_runner.rb:29:inrun’
/usr/local/bin/gem:23