From: Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@...>
Date: 2008-05-30T05:09:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Gems not working

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Jim Hoskins <jimh@avatar-intl.com> wrote:
> I am currently not able to install any gems. I was using Gem 1.1.1 but
> kept receiving the following errors:
>
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteSourceException)
>    Error fetching remote gem cache: Errno::EPIPE: Broken pipe reading
> http://gems.rubyonrails.org/yaml
>
> That seemed to be the same problem discussed here:
> http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/149595
>
> That solution does me no good since I am using 32bit and running FreeBSD
> not Linux.
>
> I decided to install Rubygem 1.1.0 and tried to install rails and got
> this:
>
> gem install rails
> Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyonrails.org/
> Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org/
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError)
>    Errno::ECONNRESET: Connection reset by peer reading
> http://gems.rubyforge.org/gems/rake-0.8.1.gem
>
>
> Additionally this is stopping me from using the Freebsd rubygem-* ports
> due to the same error.
>
> my gem env is:
>
> RubyGems Environment:
>  - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.1.0 (1.1.0)
>  - RUBY VERSION: 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [i386-freebsd6]
>  - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
>  - RUBY EXECUTABLE: /usr/local/bin/ruby18
>  - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
>    - ruby
>    - x86-freebsd-6
>  - GEM PATHS:
>     - /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
>  - GEM CONFIGURATION:
>     - :update_sources => true
>     - :verbose => true
>     - :benchmark => false
>     - :backtrace => false
>     - :bulk_threshold => 1000
>     - :sources => ["http://gems.rubyonrails.org",
> "http://gems.rubyforge.org"]
>  - REMOTE SOURCES:
>     - http://gems.rubyonrails.org
>     - http://gems.rubyforge.org
>
>
> Any Ideas? I am at the end of my rope on this.


Have you tried a couple of times? The errors just look like a slow
line that is disconnecting.

I have had strange proxy issues with Rubyforge before, but that
was always when trying to log in, never with getting gems.

Leslie