From: Chad Fowler <chadfowler@...>
Date: 2005-02-04T00:59:04+09:00
Subject: Re: problem installing gems on ubuntu amd64

On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 23:45:53 +0900, Christoph Sturm
<christoph.sturm@gmail.com> wrote:
> hey ruby people!
> 
> i am trying to install rubygems on ubuntu64 warty on amd64. i have all
> ruby packages installed, and it fails with a segfault.
> 
> this is the end of the log:
> ...
> 
> As of RubyGems 0.8.0, library stubs are no longer needed.
> Searching $LOAD_PATH for stubs to optionally delete (may take a while)...
> ...done.
> No library stubs found.
> 
> /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package.rb:150: [BUG] Segmentation fault
> ruby 1.8.2 (2004-08-24) [x86_64-linux]
> 
> Aborted
> 
> does anyone have an idea what the problem could be?
> 

Weird one.  It looks like the problem comes up during an unpack() as
part of the tar code.  Could you give Austin Ziegler/Mauricio
Fernandez's minitar library a try?  I'd be interested to see if it
also causes a segfault.

http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/minitar/

Thanks!

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