From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2009-03-11T09:24:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Unable to update gems


On Mar 10, 2009, at 16:38 , Eric Hodel wrote:

> On Mar 10, 2009, at 16:12, Eswar Vandanapu wrote:
>> Roger Pack wrote:
>>> Ryan Davis wrote:
>>>> On Mar 10, 2009, at 11:15 , Eswar Vandanapu wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  integer 2953686243 too big to convert to `int'
>>>> rerun with --backtrace
>>
>> C:\Program Files\NetBeans 6.7 M2\ruby2\jruby-1.1.4\bin>gem update
>> --backtrace
>> Updating installed gems
>> Updating actionmailer
>> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (RangeError)
>>   integer 2953686243 too big to convert to `int'
>>       C:/Program Files/NetBeans 6.7
>> M2/ruby2/jruby-1.1.4/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package/ 
>> tar_reader/entry.rb:83:in
>> `read'
>
> gem update -V --backtrace please, this error is very strange, it  
> seems you have a nearly 3GB tar file for actionmailer...


I think this is very possibly a problem with jruby... Can you test  
with MRI?

Obviously, updating actionmailer isn't a problem in normal cases, so  
some edge case is messing stuff up. Either remove netbeans or remove  
jruby from the equation and try again.