a problem with user-specific state as I initially suspected.

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Andrew Wagner
<andrew [dot] wagner [..] ...> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In one of our user accounts, we're having trouble installing orocos
> using autoproj. It seems like a permissions problem related to one of
> autoproj's ruby dependencies. We did chmod o-wx -R in the home
> directory, and that did not change the error. Has anyone else hit
> this error and found a way around it?
>
> autoproj: importing and loading selected packages
> autoproj: building and installing packages
> ERROR: got an error processing utilrb, waiting for pending jobs to end
> configured CMake for utilmm
> configured CMake for rtt
> configured CMake for log4cpp
> Build failed
> utilrb(/home/kurt/planepower/extern/orocos/utilrb): failed in post-install phase
> '/usr/bin/ruby1.8
> /home/kurt/planepower/extern/orocos/.gems/bin/rake default' returned
> status 1
> see /home/kurt/planepower/extern/orocos/install/log/utilrb-post-install.log
> for details
> last 10 lines are:
>
> /usr/bin/ruby1.8
> /home/kurt/planepower/extern/orocos/.gems/bin/rake default
> in directory /home/kurt/planepower/extern/orocos/utilrb
> /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/hoe/debug.rb:18: warning: Insecure world
> writable dir /home in PATH, mode 040777
> INFO: cannot load the Hoe gem, or Hoe fails. Distribution is disabled
> INFO: error message is: ERROR: 'rake/rdoctask' is obsolete and no
> longer supported. Use 'rdoc/task' (available in RDoc 2.4.2+) instead.
> rake aborted!
> undefined method `<<' for LL():Rake::Scope::EmptyScope
> ./lib/utilrb/doc/rake.rb:40:in `doc'
> /home/kurt/planepower/extern/orocos/utilrb/Rakefile:27
> (See full trace by running task with --trace)