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