irb freezes my system, running a virtual machine on Oracle VirtualBox

[astrapsyche]

I recently used pkg-install(8) to download Ruby and Ruby gems, then used gem install irb to install irb. But when I run irb, my system freezes - I can't ctrl-c my way out of it and I have to reset the virtual machine. The expected irb prompt does not appear. I can run irb -v and get the version number (1.6.2) - but actually running irb causes the aforementioned system freeze. I'm logged in as root. Help!

 

[SirDice]

pkg install rubygem-irb

 

[astrapsyche]

pkg install rubygem-irb

Tried that. Tried it a second time and it says "The most recent versions of packages are already installed" The same behavior persists when trying to run irb.

 

[SirDice]

I would do a force reinstall, gem install likely overwrote some things. pkg install -f rubygem-irb.

Don't run gem install as root, you will overwrite whatever gets installed from packages/ports.

 

[astrapsyche]

Hmmm. It reinstalled rubygem-irb, but running irb gives me the same frozen behavior.

 

[jebreen]

Did you wind up resolving this issue? I am getting the same with irb installed from the ports collection.

 

[Cath O'Deray]

… VirtualBox

… the virtual machine

the same

Which version of VirtualBox, on what host?

Which version of FreeBSD, exactly, in the guest?

Ports from quarterly, or latest?

freebsd--version -kru ; uname -aKU

pkg -vv | grep -B 1 -e url -e priority