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Joel VanderWerf...
Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 6:17 am
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Anyone else getting this error? I didn't find any recent mention of it.

gem install syntax --backtrace
ERROR: While executing gem ... (ArgumentError)
invalid date
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/date.rb:727:in `new'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in `node_import'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in `load'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in `load'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/specification.rb:476:in
`from_yaml'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package/tar_input.rb:182:in
`load_gemspec'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package/tar_input.rb:50:in
`initialize'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package/tar_reader.rb:63:in
`each'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package/tar_reader.rb:54:in
`loop'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package/tar_reader.rb:54:in
`each'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package/tar_input.rb:31:in
`initialize'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package/tar_input.rb:16:in `new'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package/tar_input.rb:16:in
`open'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package.rb:56:in `open'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/format.rb:67:in `from_io'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/format.rb:51:in
`from_file_by_path'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/format.rb:50:in `open'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/format.rb:50:in
`from_file_by_path'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/installer.rb:119:in `initialize'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/dependency_installer.rb:239:in
`new'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/dependency_installer.rb:239:in
`install'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/dependency_installer.rb:222:in
`each'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/dependency_installer.rb:222:in
`install'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/commands/install_command.rb:118:in
`execute'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/commands/install_command.rb:115:in
`each'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/commands/install_command.rb:115: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

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vjoel : Joel VanderWerf : path berkeley edu : 510 665 3407
 
Joel VanderWerf...
Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 6:17 am
Guest
Joel VanderWerf wrote:
Quote:

Anyone else getting this error? I didn't find any recent mention of it.

gem install syntax --backtrace
ERROR: While executing gem ... (ArgumentError)
invalid date

Forgot to say: this is the only gem with this problem. I set up a new
system today with about 40 other gems that installed fine, except the
ones dependent on syntax.

There's no improvement when downloading the gem file and installing it.
The same version of syntax (1.0.0) has worked for me before, with the
same versions of ruby and gem.

$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) [i686-linux]
$ gem --version
1.3.5

However, I'm using gcc 4.4.1 for the first time (ubuntu 9.10).

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vjoel : Joel VanderWerf : path berkeley edu : 510 665 3407
 
 
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