From: Christoph Sturm <christoph.sturm@...>
Date: 2005-02-04T02:41:23+09:00
Subject: Re: problem installing gems on ubuntu amd64

hey chad!

i have been told that minitar works on the system. 



On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 00:59:04 +0900, Chad Fowler <chadfowler@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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> 
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> 


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