On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 2:45 PM, jcbollinger <john.bollin...@stjude.org> wrote: > > > On Tuesday, November 27, 2012 8:27:37 AM UTC-6, Matthew Burgess wrote: >> >> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Alaric <paxind...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Yup, I get the same error: >> > >> > /usr/bin/ruby: symbol lookup error: >> > /usr/lib64/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux/json/ext/parser.so: undefined >> > symbol: RSTRING_PTR >> > >> > >> > My one thought is that maybe my version stdlib is old... I checked and >> > it's version 2.3.1 I'll give it an upgrade and see if that helps, it's just >> > weird that on the RHEL6 servers nothing seems off. >> >> This looks like your version of Ruby is too old. >> >> RSTRING_PTR was added to Ruby-1.8.6, but RHEL5 and its clones only >> provide Ruby-1.8.5. I use Ruby-1.8.7 available from >> http://yum.theforeman.org/development/el5/x86_64/. >> > > > That makes sense, somewhat. It would constitute a pretty weird packaging > issue, because rpmbuild normally does a very good job of identifying library > version dependencies, and yum and rpm are very reliable about ensuring > dependencies are installed (unless you start overriding them, in which case > all bets are off). > > Do you have more than one version of Ruby installed on the affected systems?
I know you were probably asking this of the OP, but I'll answer from my point of view anyway. When I got the error it was exactly because I was doing what the OP was doing and mixing RPMs and GEMs on the same system. The gem installed without a hitch, because, if I remember rightly, they do very little install-time checking other than for other gems that they directly depend on. They simply assume that if they can be installed, you have a recent enough Ruby environment; they leave any issues to be discovered at runtime. Having had my hands burned by that episode, I now only ever use RPMs. Thankfully, the repos available from puppetlabs and theforeman coupled with EPEL, provide for everything I've needed so far (I'd like to see up to date RPMs for Razor-related dependencies, but that's very low priority and for another mailing list anyway). Kind Regards, Matt. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
