error when attempting using trying to install a gem and querying remote gems

[Zach.Rowinski]

I just began starting to use Ruby-- and programming in general-- so
maybe the solution to this problem is very simple.

I get the following bug message both when I attempt to install a gem
(specifically the the gettext gem-- see link below for reference) and
when I attempt to to query the remote gems on Windows XP:

c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/incremental_fetcher.rb:133:
[BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.8.5 <2006-08-25> [i186-mswin32]

This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an
unusual way. Please contact the applications support team for more
information.

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This bug results when I enter in either of the following prompts in the
command console:

C:\>gem install gettext

or

C:\>gem query --remote

Is there an easy solution to this problem?

(link to gettext gem: http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/ruby-gettext/)

 

[Jason LaRiviere]

I get the following bug message both when I attempt to install a gem
(specifically the the gettext gem-- see link below for reference) and
when I attempt to to query the remote gems on Windows XP:

c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/incremental_fetcher.rb:133:
[BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.8.5 <2006-08-25> [i186-mswin32]

FWIW, I've seen the same behaviour on my NetBSD ruby install, 1.84 with
both gem versions 0.8.11 and 0.9.0 on sparc. For me, it's not critical,
so I just grab whatever gems I need via wget and install them locally.
It works everywhere else, it's just that machine. Go figure.