From: Nick Triantos <nick-gmane@...>
Date: 2005-05-09T23:21:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Hang when updating Gem source index

Hi Chad (and Assaph),

Yes, I actually started it updating, went to dinner, and then came back 
to it 2 hours later.  It was still at that point, and there was no 
activity on the link.

I am behind a linksys DSL firewall, but connections that start from my 
machine are ok (no proxies, etc.).  I'm now trying it from another PC on 
my network (which did work before), and that one's stuck at that same 
spot, too.  If I manually download the gems and then to a local install, 
they work fine.

thanks for your help,
-Nick

Chad Fowler wrote:

>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.
>  
>