From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2010-01-01T00:40:55+09:00
Subject: Re: SystemStackError with gem installs, 1.8.7-p248



On Dec 30, 5:53 pm, Aaron Patterson <aa...@tenderlovemaking.com>
wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:41:06PM +0900, Daniel Berger wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > I upgraded to ruby 1.8.7 p248 yesterday. Since then I've started
> > seeing these error messages on gem installs:
>
> > dberger@globe-madison ~>sudo gem install sys-filesystem
> > Password:
> > Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
> > Successfully installed sys-filesystem-0.3.2
> > 1 gem installed
> > ERROR:  While executing gem ... (SystemStackError)
> >     stack level too deep
>
> > The gem appears to install fine. It's just that final error message
> > that's started showing up. I saw the same thing with passenger. Here's
> > my environment:
>
> Maybe it's happening when the RDoc gets generated?  What version of RDoc
> do you have installed?

Ah, I discovered the problem once I remembered the '--debug' option.
Turns out it's an issue with yard:

ERROR:  While executing gem ... (SystemStackError)
    stack level too deep
	/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/yard-0.5.2/lib/rubygems_plugin.rb:
79:in `install_ri_yard_orig'
	/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/yard-0.5.2/lib/rubygems_plugin.rb:
79:in `install_ri_yard_orig'
	/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/yard-0.4.0/lib/rubygems_plugin.rb:
77:in `install_ri'
	/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/doc_manager.rb:109:in
`generate_ri'
	/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/commands/
install_command.rb:144:in `execute'
	/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/commands/
install_command.rb:143:in `each'
	/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/commands/
install_command.rb:143:in `execute'
	/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/command.rb:257:in `invoke'
	/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/command_manager.rb:132:in
`process_args'
	/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/command_manager.rb:102:in
`run'
	/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_runner.rb:58:in `run'
	/usr/local/bin/gem:21

I'll report this to the yard dev.

Regards,

Dan