From: Artie Ziff <artie.ziff@...>
Date: 2008-06-08T12:30:53+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby gems install error

Hello,

Thank you for your interest.

> Did you unpack the tarball in /tmp?
>
No. Unpacked in temporary directory that was not "/tmp".
It was very fun to diagnose.
The problem was the following:

The directory "/tmp" was symlink'ed to non-existent directory.

Perhaps the installer should check to see if /tmp actually exists
rather than presuming that it exists, which leads to this failure.

Cheers,
az