From: Chad Fowler <chadfowler@...>
Date: 2005-05-09T20:30:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Hang when updating Gem source index

On 5/9/05, Nick Triantos <nick-gmane@triantos.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just installed Ruby 1.8.2-15 (win32 version) on a new Windows XP pc.
> When I try to 'gem install' some packages, the app hangs / gets stuck
> waiting as below.
>     C:\Documents and Settings\nick\Desktop>gem install rails --remote
>     Attempting remote installation of 'rails'
>     Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
>     --> gets stuck here, I let it run for hours with no response
> 
> I've seen others reporting the issue here and elsewhere on the web, too,
> but I haven't seen any solutions that work.  I did update
> rubygems-update to 0.8.10, that didn't change anything.  Other gem cmds
> (gem update, gem list, etc. do the same thing, when they get to this
> same point.
> 
> Any ideas?  Anything I can do to debug this?  Is there a trace cmd or
> something like that in ruby?
> 

Hi Nick.  Are you able to download the gem source manually with your
browser?  It's at http://gems.rubyforge.org/yaml.Z.

You could try using the tracer library, but it will give you a ton of output:

ruby -rtracer /path/to/gem install rails --remote > outputfile.txt

After waiting a couple of minutes, the last few lines of
outputfile.txt would probably be helpful in determining where the
program is hanging.
-- 

Chad Fowler
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