Hi All,
I’m hoping someone has seen this error before and can advise me.
I was having problems with Switchtower hanging, and I found a blog
posting which pointed the finger at Apple’s install of Ruby 1.8.2
(?). I downloaded ruby-1.8.3.tar.gz, compiled it with --enable-
shared, and installed it under /usr/local.
I went through /usr/bin and /usr/lib and archived away all of the
Apple bins and libs. Then I installed RubyGems. The install of the
rake gem went fine, but the rails install bombed out with a segfault.
I have found that it crashes while installing a gem, but not every
time. For example, here I install activesupport OK, then uninstall
it, then try again, at which point it fails:
Successfully uninstalled activesupport version 1.2.3
line 125 column 49Before 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:
ERROR: While executing gem … (TypeError)
wrong instance allocation
The error message changes. Here’s another example:
RDoc failure in lib/active_support/core_ext/time/calculations.rb at
or around line 29 column 56Before reporting this, […]
The internal error was:
ERROR: While executing gem … (NameError)
uninitialized constant RubyToken::TkReading2TokenNoKey
The computer is a PowerBook with 1.5GB RAM. Every other application
works fine and the machine is stable, so I’m fairly certin it’s not a
hardware problem (my first thought when I got the segfault).
I tried the preview of 1.8.4 with the same result.
plinth:~ evansj$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.4 (2005-10-29) [powerpc-darwin8.3.0]
plinth:~ evansj$ gem -v
0.8.11
Apple’s ruby worked great, apart from switchtower.
Jon
