From: Serguei Cambour <s.cambour@...>
Date: 2009-12-09T18:12:56+09:00
Subject: Re: gems installation - invalid gem format

Luis Lavena wrote:
> On Dec 4, 6:16�pm, Serguei Cambour <s.camb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Installing fromlocal rubygems-update-1.3.5 didn't solve the problem.
>> Only the error message changed. Instead of
>>
>> � � invalid gem format for
>> C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/cache/rubygems-update-1.3.5
>>
>> I got
>>
>> � � invalid gem format for C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/cache/[gem_name]
>>
> 
> Can you remove 1.8/cache folder and try again?
> 
> This time, please execute the install command using --debug -V
> options, which will provide us enough information to see where the
> problem is.
> 
> Thank you,

I tried as you asked, here is the result:


Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\serge>ruby -v
ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) [i386-mswin32]

C:\Documents and Settings\serge>gem list

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

fxri (0.3.6)
fxruby (1.6.16)
hpricot (0.6.164)
log4r (1.0.5)
ptools (1.1.6)
rake (0.8.1)
ruby-opengl (0.60.0)
test-unit (2.0.1)
win32-api (1.2.1, 1.2.0)
win32-clipboard (0.4.4)
win32-dir (0.3.2)
win32-eventlog (0.5.0)
win32-file (0.5.5)
win32-file-stat (1.3.1)
win32-process (0.5.9)
win32-sapi (0.1.4)
win32-sound (0.4.1)
windows-api (0.2.4)
windows-pr (0.9.3)

C:\Documents and Settings\serge>gem update --system --debug -V
Exception `NameError' at 
C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/command_manager.rb:134 - 
uninitiali
zed constant Gem::Commands::UpdateCommand
Updating RubyGems
GET 200 OK: http://gems.rubyforge.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz
Exception `Errno::EEXIST' at C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:243 - 
File exists - C:/Documents and
Settings/serge/.gem/specs/gems.rubyforge.org%80
GET 200 OK: http://gemcutter.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz
Exception `Errno::EEXIST' at C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:243 - 
File exists - C:/Documents and
Settings/serge/.gem/specs/gemcutter.org%80
Updating rubygems-update
GET 200 OK: 
http://gemcutter.org/quick/Marshal.4.8/rubygems-update-1.3.5.gemspec.rz
Exception `Errno::EEXIST' at C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:243 - 
File exists - C:/Documents and
Settings/serge/.gem/specs/gemcutter.org%80/quick/Marshal.4.8
Installing gem rubygems-update-1.3.5
Downloading gem rubygems-update-1.3.5.gem
GET 302 Moved Temporarily: 
http://gemcutter.org/gems/rubygems-update-1.3.5.gem
GET 200 OK: 
http://s3.amazonaws.com/gemcutter_production/gems/rubygems-update-1.3.5.gem
Exception `Gem::Package::FormatError' at 
C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package/tar_input.r
b:112 - No metadata found!
Exception `Gem::InstallError' at 
C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/installer.rb:116 - invalid
gem format for C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/cache/rubygems-update-1.3.5.gem
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::InstallError)
    invalid gem format for 
C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/cache/rubygems-update-1.3.5.gem
        C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/installer.rb:116:in 
`initialize'
        C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/dependency_installer.rb:236:in 
`new'
        C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/dependency_installer.rb:236:in 
`install'
        C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/dependency_installer.rb:219:in 
`each'
        C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/dependency_installer.rb:219:in 
`install'
        C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/commands/update_command.rb:85:in 
`execute'
        C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/commands/update_command.rb:81:in 
`each'
        C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/commands/update_command.rb:81:in 
`execute'
        C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/command.rb:136:in 
`invoke'
        C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/command_manager.rb:105:in 
`process_args'
        C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/command_manager.rb:75:in 
`run'
        C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_runner.rb:39:in 
`run'
        C:/Ruby/bin/gem:24

C:\Documents and Settings\serge>

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