Gem update --system broke rubygems?

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Hi,

I'm running ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i686-linux]

I tried:

gem update --system

And, at the end of the install, got the following error:

  Successfully built RubyGem
  Name: sources
  Version: 0.0.1
  File: sources-0.0.1.gem
hook /opt/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rubygems-update-0.9.2/./post-install.rb failed:
undefined method `post_install_message' for #<Gem::Specification:0x49ba176c>
Try 'ruby setup.rb --help' for detailed usage.
RubyGems system software updated

Now, subsequent invocations of `gem` produce the following error:

gem list --remote > gems.txt
ERROR: While executing gem ... (NoMethodError)
    undefined method `refresh' for #<Hash:0x55d0d2d4>

gem update --system
Updating RubyGems...
ERROR: While executing gem ... (NoMethodError)
    undefined method `refresh' for #<Hash:0x5364d414>

Anyone else experienced this?

I'll try reinstalling rubygems from source..

Regards,

Bill

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Something has gone bonkers with your source cache. Mine is in
~/.gem/source_cache on OS X. Remove that and you should be able to
work again.

-austin

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On 2/10/07, Bill Kelly <billk@cts.com> wrote:

Now, subsequent invocations of `gem` produce the following error:

gem list --remote > gems.txt
ERROR: While executing gem ... (NoMethodError)
    undefined method `refresh' for #<Hash:0x55d0d2d4>

gem update --system
Updating RubyGems...
ERROR: While executing gem ... (NoMethodError)
    undefined method `refresh' for #<Hash:0x5364d414>

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I'll try reinstalling rubygems from source..

Rats... the reinstall from source appeared to complete without
errors, but I still get:

gem list --remote > gems.txt
ERROR: While executing gem ... (NoMethodError)
    undefined method `refresh' for #<Hash:0x4edb22b8>

Regards,

Bill

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Now, subsequent invocations of `gem` produce the following error:

gem list --remote > gems.txt
ERROR: While executing gem ... (NoMethodError)
    undefined method `refresh' for #<Hash:0x55d0d2d4>

gem update --system
Updating RubyGems...
ERROR: While executing gem ... (NoMethodError)
    undefined method `refresh' for #<Hash:0x5364d414>

Something has gone bonkers with your source cache. Mine is in
~/.gem/source_cache on OS X. Remove that and you should be able to
work again.

Thanks Austin, that fixed it!

(Mine was in: /opt/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/source_cache )

Regards,

Bill

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From: "Austin Ziegler" <halostatue@gmail.com>

On 2/10/07, Bill Kelly <billk@cts.com> wrote: