Vagrant cannot install nokogiri-dependent plugins - plugins

Question

I'm trying to install the rackspace plugin for vagrant (1.5.1):
vagrant plugin install vagrant-rackspace
But it complains
Bundler, the underlying system Vagrant uses to install plugins,
reported an error. The error is shown below. These errors are usually
caused by misconfigured plugin installations or transient network
issues. The error from Bundler is:
An error occurred while installing nokogiri (1.6.1), and Bundler
cannot continue. Make sure that gem install nokogiri -v '1.6.1'
succeeds before bundling.
However gem install nokogiri -v '1.6.1' and /Applications/Vagrant/embedded/bin/gem install nokogiri -v '1.6.1' both work.
I've looked at a bunch of SO threads and blog posts. Things I've tried that have not worked
Running xcode-select --install
Installing full xcode
brew install gcc-4.2
Remove rvm and rvm version of ruby
Install nokogiri w/ built-in (mac) ruby and vagrant-embedded ruby
Despite the fact that nokogiri installs fine (#5 above) without sudo on both counts, vagrant plugin install vagrant-rackspace still fails...
So, in summary, I can install the nokogiri plugin, however I cannot install the vagrant rackspace plugin, can you help me get the plugin installed?
Related threads
Error to install Nokogiri on OSX 10.9 Maverick?
nokogiri - ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension
Full output of vagrant plugin install vagrant-rackspace --debug

Answer 1

I'm on OSX Mavericks and this worked for me:
Set as environment property:
NOKOGIRI_USE_SYSTEM_LIBRARIES=1
Then install as usual:
vagrant plugin install vagrant-rackspace

Answer 2

Vagrant ships with embedded Ruby and isolated gem environment. So installing gems manually to your "normal" gem environment won't help.
The first issue is that you should never use sudo to run any vagrant command. If possible, please remove ~/.vagrant.d/ or at least chown it recursively back to your own user. You could also try upgrading Vagrant to v1.5.1.
Then please gist/pastebin the output of vagrant plugin install vagrant-rackspace --debug and ~/.vagrant.d/gems/gems/nokogiri-1.6.1/ext/nokogiri/mkmf.log.

Answer 3

The posted solutions didn't work for me. Instead I needed to specify the libxml2, libxslt and libiconv that I installed with homebrew (Do this first).
I installed the gem manually with the embedded ruby with the following [very concise] command line:
/Applications/Vagrant/embedded/bin/gem install \ # select the embedded ruby
--install-dir ~/.vagrant.d/gems \ # install to the vagrant dir
nokogiri -v '1.6.2.1' -- \ # pass options to nokogiri install
--with-xml2-include=/usr/local/Cellar/libxml2/2.7.8/include/libxml2 \
--with-xml2-lib=/usr/local/Cellar/libxml2/2.7.8/lib \
--with-xslt-dir=/usr/local/Cellar/libxslt/1.1.26 \
--with-iconv-include=/usr/local/Cellar/libiconv/1.13.1/include \
--with-iconv-lib=/usr/local/Cellar/libiconv/1.13.1/lib

Answer 4

This worked for me on Mavericks and Vagrant 1.6.1:
CC=/usr/bin/gcc vagrant plugin install vagrant-rackspace
I tried NOKOGIRI_USE_SYSTEM_LIBRARIES=1 but got an error saying that system libxml2 is too old.

Answer 5

Warning: This is a super-hacky solution, though it's hard to call it that.
Yesterday I installed Vagrant on another OSX Mavericks box. Like many other posts I read on SO "all I had to do" was run xcode-select --install and bingo vagrant plugin install vagrant-rackspace worked like a charm.
Today I was mired down in the Bundler code again when it dawned on me that since this is an isolated ruby environment why not nuke my ~/.vagrant.d directory and copy the same directory from the successful build on the other box...
The result? A working vagrant rackspace on my laptop! I'm not sure I'll ever figure out what was really wrong, but if anyone wants a shot at the 100 point bounty, I'm still open to suggestions!

Answer 6

In my case the nokogiri folders and their files located in ~/vagrant.d/gems/gems had wrong rights (user/group).
After changing them to username:staff (username being your console user name), it works like a charm.

Answer 7

Similarly with my case, I have an issue while installing vagrant-omnibus plugin for Vagrant 1.6.3 on OSX Mavericks 10.9.4 and ruby 2.0.0p247 rbenv.
I tried setting the env NOKOGIRI_USE_SYSTEM_LIBRARIES to 1 or true, then update+install but the same error still there.
I found that there is a suggestion in https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues/3769 to use the specify the baked in nokogiri version and this works for me. So, I also wrote a quick noted for myself to refer this unfortunates issue.

Answer 8

If Nate Murray's solution doesn't work, I found upgrading to a Vagrant version > 1.6.4 fixed the issue (as noted in this Github issue: https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues/3769)

Answer 9

in my case while trying to install vagrant-parallels, i had to check the Command line tools folder had an error in the naming for some reason. Fixing that allowed nokigiri to work well