From: Chad Fowler <chadfowler@...>
Date: 2004-11-15T00:40:21+09:00
Subject: Re: ERROR: While Executing gem

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 00:33:23 +0900, otaku <justin@gezuinc.com> wrote:
> Greetings to all,
> 
> 1.) rubygems installed fine... using the latest stable snapshot of ruby
> 
> 2.) i am getting the following ERROR while trying to install various
> gems
> 
> BEGIN ERROR LOG
> -------
> hacker-otakus-Computer:/usr/local/src/rubygems-0.8.1 root#
> /usr/local/bin/gem install net-ssh
> Attempting local installation of 'net-ssh'
> Local gem file not found: net-ssh*.gem
> Attempting remote installation of 'net-ssh'
> Successfully installed net-ssh, version 0.1.0
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (ArgumentError)
> string contains null byte
> hacker-otakus-Computer:/usr/local/src/rubygems-0.8.1 root#
> /usr/local/bin/gem install rake
> Attempting local installation of 'rake'
> Local gem file not found: rake*.gem
> Attempting remote installation of 'rake'
> Successfully installed rake, version 0.4.11
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (ArgumentError)
> string contains null byte
> hacker-otakus-Computer:/usr/local/src/rubygems-0.8.1 root#
> /usr/local/bin/ruby --version
> ruby 1.8.2 (2004-11-12) [powerpc-darwin7.6.0]
> hacker-otakus-Computer:/usr/local/src/rubygems-0.8.1 root#
> -----
> END ERROR LOG
> 
> 

Greetings!

Can you add "--backtrace" to your gem command and show us what it
displays?  e.g.:

$ sudo gem install rake --backtrace

This will show a hopefully more descriptive error message that will
help us track down the problem.

Thanks!
Chad Fowler
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