From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2004-11-19T00:35:22+09:00
Subject: Re: gem list -r

On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 12:24:03AM +0900, Mohammad Khan wrote:
> [root@localhost root]# gem list -r
>  
> *** REMOTE GEMS ***
> Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:39: [BUG] rb_gc_mark(): unknown data type 0x38(0x609840) non object
> ruby 1.8.1 (2003-12-25) [i686-linux]
>  
> Aborted
> 
> 
> but If I do the same as a non-root user, gem don't throw any error.
> 
> 
> What is the issue here?

Probably one of the many YAML/syck bugs fixed around May.
Could you try a newer version (such as a stable snapshot)?

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