From: "Michael T. Richter" <ttmrichter@...>
Date: 2008-06-01T22:53:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Gems not working

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On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 09:20 +0900, Tom Copeland wrote:

> On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 03:55 +0900, Jim Hoskins wrote:
> > I am currently not able to install any gems. I was using Gem 1.1.1 but
> > kept receiving the following errors:
> >=20
> > ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteSourceException)
> >     Error fetching remote gem cache: Errno::EPIPE: Broken pipe reading
> > http://gems.rubyonrails.org/yaml
>=20
> Hm, that "yaml" file is 20 MB now... is your client timing out, or maybe
> refusing to fetch that much data?


The gem servers at rubyforge and whoever hosts for ruby on rails seem to
be badly overloaded.  I get these broken pipe errors all the time to the
point that I wrap all uses of gem in "unless" blocks in bash to make
sure things actually go through.

What would help is if the --no-update-sources flag actually did
something.  Half the time the point of failure lies in updating the
local source cache from the remote site, but whether or not I specify
--no-update-sources the source cache is downloaded at tremendous
expense.  Sometimes it's downloaded multiple times in a single
invocation (if I install a lot of gems at the command line at once).

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On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 09:20 +0900, Tom Copeland wrote:
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<FONT COLOR=3D"#000000">On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 03:55 +0900, Jim Hoskins wrot=
e:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR=3D"#000000">&gt; I am currently not able to install any gems. I=
 was using Gem 1.1.1 but</FONT>
<FONT COLOR=3D"#000000">&gt; kept receiving the following errors:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR=3D"#000000">&gt; </FONT>
<FONT COLOR=3D"#000000">&gt; ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteSo=
urceException)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR=3D"#000000">&gt;     Error fetching remote gem cache: Errno::EP=
IPE: Broken pipe reading</FONT>
<FONT COLOR=3D"#000000">&gt; <A HREF=3D"http://gems.rubyonrails.org/yaml">h=
ttp://gems.rubyonrails.org/yaml</A></FONT>

<FONT COLOR=3D"#000000">Hm, that &quot;yaml&quot; file is 20 MB now... is y=
our client timing out, or maybe</FONT>
<FONT COLOR=3D"#000000">refusing to fetch that much data?</FONT>
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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The gem servers at rubyforge and whoever hosts for ruby on rails seem to be=
 badly overloaded.&nbsp; I get these broken pipe errors all the time to the=
 point that I wrap all uses of gem in &quot;unless&quot; blocks in bash to =
make sure things actually go through.<BR>
<BR>
What would help is if the --no-update-sources flag actually did something.&=
nbsp; Half the time the point of failure lies in updating the local source =
cache from the remote site, but whether or not I specify --no-update-source=
s the source cache is downloaded at tremendous expense.&nbsp; Sometimes it'=
s downloaded multiple times in a single invocation (if I install a lot of g=
ems at the command line at once).<BR>
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