gem update --system: how to tell if it's making progress?

[Andrew Stewart]

Hello,

Today I decided to upgrade rubygems on my server from 1.0.0 to 1.2.0.
So I ran:

sudo gem update --system.

That was 4 hours ago. I'd like to know whether it's stuck or whether
it's actually making progress (and if so, when it might finish).

On the console I have:

$ sudo gem update --system
Updating RubyGems...
Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org

The output from top looks like:

Cpu(s): 0.1% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 75.8% id, 24.1% wa, 0.0% hi,
0.0% si
Mem: 262316k total, 260032k used, 2284k free, 120k buffers
Swap: 524280k total, 362352k used, 161928k free, 1264k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
26705 root 18 0 516m 192m 136 R 0 75.1 0:25.30 gem

I'd appreciate any advice about what to do.

Regards,
Andy Stewart

 

[_why]

sudo gem update --system.

That was 4 hours ago.

You can download 1.2.0 here:
http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126

Just unzip (or tar xzf) and run `ruby setup.rb` inside the extracted
folder.

_why

 

[Andrew Stewart]

You can download 1.2.0 here:
http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126

Just unzip (or tar xzf) and run `ruby setup.rb` inside the extracted
folder.

That worked perfectly, and took but a few seconds.

Thank you.

Regards,
Andy Stewart