Problem in building site from repository (ubuntu)

[vahtras]

Hi I have ubuntu 14.04 LTS and I encounter the following problem with make site:

$ make site
jekyll build -t -d _site
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require': iconv will be deprecated in the future,     use String#encode instead.
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/time.rb:265:in `_parse': can't convert nil into String (TypeError)
    from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/time.rb:265:in `parse'
    from /usr/bin/jekyll:95:in `block (2 levels) in <main>'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/optparse.rb:1391:in `call'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/optparse.rb:1391:in `block in parse_in_order'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/optparse.rb:1347:in `catch'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/optparse.rb:1347:in `parse_in_order'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/optparse.rb:1341:in `order!'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/optparse.rb:1432:in `permute!'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/optparse.rb:1453:in `parse!'
    from /usr/bin/jekyll:137:in `<main>'
make: *** [_site/index.html] Error 1

So far I have only installed standard packages, jekyll and python-yaml. I have also changed the source only so that make check passes.

$ git diff
diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index b3a45da..1c873a6 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ latlng: 41.7901128,-87.6007318
 registration: restricted
 instructor: ["Grace Hopper", "Alan Turing"]
 helper: ["John von Neumann"]
-contact: admin@software-carpentry.org
+contact: nobody@example.com
 #redirect: http://www.3rd.party.workshop.home.page.com
 #eventbrite: 00000000000
 lessons: ['R', 'Python', 'SQL', 'Git', 'Bash', 'VM']
@@ -22,18 +22,6 @@ lessons: ['R', 'Python', 'SQL', 'Git', 'Bash', 'VM']
     Please use three-letter month names for the 'humandate' field.
 -->

-<!-- Remove the block below. -->
-<div align="center">
-  <p><strong><em>
-      This page is a template for workshop home pages.
-      <br/>
-      Please see
-      <a href="//github.com/swcarpentry/bc">github.com/swcarpentry/bc</a>
-      for instructions on how to create
-      a repository for your workshop.
-  </em></strong></p>
-</div>
-
 <!--

and

$ make check
Testing file "./index.html".
Everything seems to be in order.

I have no clue really what is going on, so I am helpful for any advice.

Regards, Olav

[vahtras]

Problem was that the jekyll of the ubuntu package is too old and it was all solved following instructions in http://michaelchelen.net/81fa/install-jekyll-2-ubuntu-14-04/ (thanks to Olivier Lafleur for pointing this out)

/Olav

[gvwilson]

Thanks Olav - can you please send a PR against README.md (there's a FAQ at the bottom) explaining the symptoms and the fix? We'd be happy to take that as your contribution for instructor training... Cheers, Greg

On 2014-11-11 1:51 AM, Olav Vahtras wrote:

Problem was that the jekyll of the ubuntu package is too old and it was all solved following instructions in http://michaelchelen.net/81fa/install-jekyll-2-ubuntu-14-04/ (thanks to Olivier Lafleur for pointing this out)

/Olav

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