Bug #10842: rake update to 10.4.2 -> Segmentation fault : ruby 2.1.5p273 (2014-11-13 revision 48405) [x64-mingw32]

• Status: Closed
• Priority: Normal
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: 2.1.5
• Backport: 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: UNKNOWN, 2.2: UNKNOWN

[Javix (Sergueï Cambour)]

I tried to update the existing rake gem up to 10.4.2:

• download the latest version from rubygems and save it locally
• run gem install rake -l -N to install it locally
• got the below error:

C:\Users\XXXXX\Documents\Soft\gems>gem update rake -l
Updating installed gems
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteFetcher::UnknownHostError)
    no such name (https://rubygems.org/specs.4.8.gz)

C:\Users\XXXXX\Documents\Soft\gems>gem install rake -l
rake's executable "rake" conflicts with C:/Ruby21-x64/bin/rake
Overwrite the executable? [yN]  C:/Ruby21-x64/lib/ruby/2.1.0/rubygems/user_interaction.rb:286: [BUG] Segmentat
ion fault
ruby 2.1.5p273 (2014-11-13 revision 48405) [x64-mingw32].

See the full stack trace at this gist: https://gist.github.com/Javix/d9b8e820dbb6943827aa.

Reproduced on a Windows PC:

• Windows 7, 64 bits
• Ruby ruby 2.1.5p273 (2014-11-13 revision 48405) [x64-mingw32]

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Description updated (diff)
• Status changed from Open to Feedback

Do you run it in a "Command Prompt"?

[jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans)]

• Status changed from Feedback to Closed