Rails gem site seems borked

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$ gem install rails
Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyonrails.org/
Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org/
Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyonrails.org/
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteSourceException)
    Error fetching remote gem cache: Errno::EPIPE: Broken pipe reading http://gems.rubyonrails.org/yaml

Question 1: Why is it "bulk updating" gems.rubyonrails.org twice? (For
that matter, why is it doing this each and every time I use gem for
anything?)

Question 2: What's the issue behind the broken pipe on an URL? Have I
screwed up something on my machine or is there some bizarre use of pipes
and URLs in effect here?

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The output of gem env will help.

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On Apr 14, 2008, at 06:58 AM, Michael T. Richter wrote:

$ gem install rails
Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyonrails.org/
Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org/
Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyonrails.org/
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteSourceException)
    Error fetching remote gem cache: Errno::EPIPE: Broken pipe reading http://gems.rubyonrails.org/yaml

Question 1: Why is it "bulk updating" gems.rubyonrails.org twice? (For that matter, why is it doing this each and every time I use gem for anything?)

Question 2: What's the issue behind the broken pipe on an URL? Have I screwed up something on my machine or is there some bizarre use of pipes and URLs in effect here?

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Eric Hodel wrote:

for anything?)

Question 2: What's the issue behind the broken pipe on an URL? Have
I screwed up something on my machine or is there some bizarre use of
pipes and URLs in effect here?

The output of gem env will help.

I'm having the same issue. Here is output of gem env:

RubyGems Environment:
  - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.1.1
  - RUBY VERSION: 1.8.6 (2007-06-07 patchlevel 36) [i486-linux]
  - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
  - RUBY EXECUTABLE: /usr/bin/ruby1.8
  - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
    - ruby
    - x86-linux
  - GEM PATHS:
     - /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
  - GEM CONFIGURATION:
     - :update_sources => true
     - :verbose => true
     - :benchmark => false
     - :backtrace => false
     - :bulk_threshold => 1000
  - REMOTE SOURCES:
     - http://gems.rubyforge.org

Curiously enough, this compares exactly with gem env from a laptop where
I was successful in executing gem install rails....

Sonny.

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... incidentally, I get the same broken pipe error message regardless
what gem I am trying to install...

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Please run with --debug.

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On Apr 17, 2008, at 18:18 PM, Sonny Chee wrote:

... incidentally, I get the same broken pipe error message regardless
what gem I am trying to install...

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Eric Hodel wrote:

... incidentally, I get the same broken pipe error message regardless
what gem I am trying to install...

Please run with --debug.

Hey Eric,

This is the same command executed with --debug

ger.rb:133 - uninitialized constant Gem::Commands::InstallCommand
Exception `Gem::LoadError' at
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:523 - Could not find
RubyGem sources (> 0.0.1)

Exception `Errno::ENOENT' at
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/source_info_cache.rb:206 - No
such file or directory -
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/latest_source_cache
Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org/
Exception `Errno::ECONNRESET' at
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:133 - Connection reset by peer
Exception `Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError' at
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/remote_fetcher.rb:113 -
Errno::ECONNRESET: Connection reset by peer reading
RubyGems.org | your community gem host
Exception `Errno::EPIPE' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:175
- Broken pipe
Exception `Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError' at
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/remote_fetcher.rb:113 -
Errno::EPIPE: Broken pipe reading RubyGems.org | your community gem host
Exception `Errno::EPIPE' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:175
- Broken pipe
Exception `Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError' at
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/remote_fetcher.rb:113 -
Errno::EPIPE: Broken pipe reading RubyGems.org | your community gem host
Exception `Errno::EPIPE' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:175
- Broken pipe
Exception `Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError' at
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/remote_fetcher.rb:113 -
Errno::EPIPE: Broken pipe reading RubyGems.org | your community gem host
Exception `Gem::RemoteSourceException' at
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/source_index.rb:394 - Error
fetching remote gem cache: Errno::EPIPE: Broken pipe reading
RubyGems.org | your community gem host
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteSourceException)
    Error fetching remote gem cache: Errno::EPIPE: Broken pipe reading
RubyGems.org | your community gem host
  /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/source_index.rb:394:in
`fetch_bulk_index'
  /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/source_index.rb:332:in
`update'
  /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/source_info_cache_entry.rb:42:in
`refresh'
  /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/source_info_cache.rb:249:in
`refresh'
  /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/source_info_cache.rb:242:in
`each'
  /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/source_info_cache.rb:242:in
`refresh'
  /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/source_info_cache.rb:41:in
`cache'
  /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/source_info_cache.rb:86:in
`search_with_source'
  /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/dependency_installer.rb:77:in
`find_gems_with_sources'
  /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/dependency_installer.rb:154:in
`find_spec_by_name_and_version'
  /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/dependency_installer.rb:173:in
`install'
  /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/commands/install_command.rb:73:in
`execute'
  /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/commands/install_command.rb:70:in
`each'
  /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/commands/install_command.rb:70:in
`execute'
  /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/command.rb:136:in `invoke'
  /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/command_manager.rb:104:in
`process_args'
  /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/command_manager.rb:74:in
`run'
  /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_runner.rb:39:in `run'
  /usr/local/bin/gem:24

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Okay... I finally fixed my problem by installing the Linux 64 bit
kernel.

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Sonny Chee wrote:

Okay... I finally fixed my problem by installing the Linux 64 bit
kernel.

Since I'm junior in Linux, can you please help me installing 64 bit
kernel? It can broke others application on this machine (I have too many
important application there)?

Thanks,
Meir.

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Meir Gerenstadt wrote:

Sonny Chee wrote:

Okay... I finally fixed my problem by installing the Linux 64 bit
kernel.

Since I'm junior in Linux, can you please help me installing 64 bit
kernel? It can broke others application on this machine (I have too many
important application there)?

Thanks,
Meir.

I'm no Linux install guru, Meir. But Google, is your friend (and mine.)
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