From: Aaron Kulbe <akulbe@...>
Date: 2006-12-17T16:35:59+09:00
Subject: Re: rubygem setup.rb failing

On 12/16/06, Michael Satterwhite <michael@weblore.com> wrote:
> I'm having to setup multiple machines, and I've got a new problem (at
> least each time my problem is new ... I'm not repeating the old ones)
>
> I've compiled ruby and installed it - I've put it into /usr/local/bin,
> if that's a problem, I can redo it to whereever. Note that I didn't see
> any errors in the ruby compile / install
>
> Next was an attempt to install rubygems. I ran
>    ruby setup.rb
>
> from the directory with rubygems. It starts out OK, then I get
> -------------------------
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux/syck.so:
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux/syck.so: undefined symbol:
> __stack_chk_fail_local - /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux/syck.so
> (LoadError)
>         from
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
> `require'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml/syck.rb:5
>         from
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
> `gem_original_require'
>         from
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
> `require'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:11
>         from
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
> `gem_original_require'
>         from
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
> `require'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package.rb:6
>          ... 11 levels...
>         from setup.rb:887:in `exec_install'
>         from setup.rb:705:in `invoke'
>         from setup.rb:674:in `invoke'
>         from setup.rb:1352
> ------------------------------------------
>
> Either I'm missing something - or my ruby install wasn't as clean as it
> looked. I looked at the source, and I thought that all I needed to do
> was install the yaml and syck files onto the machine (I'm running
> kubuntu) - but that didn't seem to do any good.
>
> Would someone be so kind as to help here.
>
> Thanks in advance
> ---Michael
>
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>

http://www.linuxlooney.com/past/2006/8/15/installing_ruby_and_rails_on/

I wrote this up, based on my experience. I hope it helps.

Cheers,

Aaron Kulbe