Error installing a pod - Bus Error at 0x00000001045b8000

Question

I'm just learning to use cocoapods and am encountering an error when trying to install a pod.

Top of error:

/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/ffi-1.15.3/lib/ffi/library.rb:275: [BUG] Bus Error at 0x00000001045b8000 ruby 2.6.3p62 (2019-04-16 revision 67580) [universal.arm64e-darwin20]

Bottom of error:

zsh: abort pod install

Have tried the following, as suggested on some threads here and GitHub:

• Uninstalling and re-installing cocoapod
• sudo gem install xcodeproj
• sudo gem update

but nothing seems to be working; the error persists and the .xcworkspace file doesn't appear.

Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you!

Answer 1

If the other solution (sudo arch -x86_64 gem install ffi) does not work for you, try the following one instead:

gem install --user-install ffi -- --enable-libffi-alloc

After that, run pod install or whatever you were trying to do again, but without prefixing it with arch -x86_64.

It worked for me without issues and this way I could also avoid going the Intel emulation (Rosetta 2) way.

I find this solution in an issue filed on the ffi github project.

Answer 2

I came across someone having this issue a while ago and I believe one of the suggestions made was to try the following:

install gem using

sudo arch -x86_64 gem install ffi

and then run this

arch -x86_64 pod install

it might work, it might not, I'm not too sure. This is because from the arm64 part of your error message I assume you have an M1 Mac. Either way it's probably worth a try.

Answer 3

Reinstalling CocoaPods with brew and removing ffi gem solved the issue for me.

sudo gem uninstall cocoapods
sudo gem uninstall ffi
brew install cocoapods
pod install

Answer 4

You cannot use system here, because according to its documentation, https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/system.3.html

system() returns after the command has been completed.

Since you are using gtk, don't forget library functions provided by glib. It has a bunch of functions related to process and thread handling. For example, you can use GSubprocess class from glib, g_subprocess_new.

#include <gtk/gtk.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <glib.h>

static void open_app(GtkWidget *Widget, gpointer data) {
  g_subprocess_new(G_SUBPROCESS_FLAGS_NONE, NULL, "xreader", NULL);
  gtk_main_quit();
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
  GtkWidget *window;
  GtkWidget *button1;

  gtk_init(&argc, &argv);
  /*make window */
  window = gtk_window_new(GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);
  /*give name to the window*/
  gtk_window_set_title(GTK_WINDOW(window), "launcher");
  /*make size of window*/
  gtk_window_set_default_size(GTK_WINDOW(window), 700, 700);
  /*open the window in the meddal*/
  gtk_window_set_position(GTK_WINDOW(window), GTK_WIN_POS_CENTER);

  button1 = gtk_button_new_with_label("Open Xreader");

  gtk_container_add(GTK_CONTAINER(window), button1);
  gtk_widget_show_all(window);

  g_signal_connect(button1, "clicked", G_CALLBACK(open_app), NULL);
  g_signal_connect(window, "destroy", G_CALLBACK(gtk_main_quit), NULL);

  gtk_main();

  return 0;
}