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I have got a new MacBook, and are trying to install some pods. I first did sudo gem install cocoapods on root, then did pod install in the directory I need the pods. Got this error, and have no clue what went wrong.

From Crash Report:
Process: ruby [5444] Path: /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/bin/ruby Identifier: ruby Version: 145.100.1 Code Type: ARM-64 (Native) Parent Process: zsh [5282] Responsible: Terminal [5005] User ID: 501

Date/Time: 2021-09-27 21:24:20.779 +0200 OS Version: macOS 11.6 (20G165) Report Version: 12 Anonymous UUID: --D950-78ED-2DF378C6BA5B

Sleep/Wake UUID: -FE18-47F9-9A4EF2935C96

Time Awake Since Boot: 29000 seconds Time Since Wake: 1900 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (SIGABRT) Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000001, 0x0000000000000000 Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Application Specific Information: dyld3 mode abort() called.
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External Modification Summary: Calls made by other processes targeting this process: task_for_pid: 0 thread_create: 0 thread_set_state: 0 Calls made by this process: task_for_pid: 0 thread_create: 0 thread_set_state: 0 Calls made by all processes on this machine: task_for_pid: 0 thread_create: 0 thread_set_state: 0

VM Region Summary: ReadOnly portion of Libraries: Total=574.8M resident=0K(0%) swapped_out_or_unallocated=574.8M(100%) Writable regions: Total=356.4M written=0K(0%) resident=0K(0%) swapped_out=0K(0%) unallocated=356.4M(100%)

                            VIRTUAL   REGION

REGION TYPE SIZE COUNT (non-coalesced) =========== ======= ======= Activity Tracing 256K 1 Kernel Alloc Once 32K 1 MALLOC 105.2M 32 MALLOC guard page 96K 5 MALLOC_MEDIUM (reserved) 240.0M 2 reserved VM address space (unallocated) STACK GUARD 56.1M 4 Stack 10.6M 4 VM_ALLOCATE 1.0G 4 VM_ALLOCATE (reserved) 12K 1 reserved VM address space (unallocated) __AUTH 273K 64 __AUTH_CONST 3528K 153 __DATA 1616K 162 __DATA_CONST 4536K 173 __DATA_DIRTY 313K 63 __LINKEDIT 490.7M 27 __OBJC_CONST 437K 41 __OBJC_RO 75.1M 1 __OBJC_RW 2576K 1 __TEXT 84.2M 185 __UNICODE 588K 1 shared memory 32K 2 =========== ======= ======= TOTAL 2.1G 927 TOTAL, minus reserved VM space 1.8G 927

user_10157354 · Answer

Solved by using homebrew
brew install cocoapods

user_5942020 · Answer

For those running on Apple Silicon, this has worked for me:

Uninstall with Ruby: sudo gem uninstall cocoapods

Then, install again with brew: brew install cocoapods

user_17845399 · Answer

I had the same issue, but just had to close all instances of my terminal windows after installing cocoapods.

user_6842203 · Answer

Try using Rosetta terminal

Locate Terminal.app in Finder. (Applications->Terminal.app)
Right-click and choose Get Info
Check the “Open using Rosetta”
Quit all instances of Terminal app and run it again
Run sudo gem install ffi
Run pod install

https://armen-mkrtchian.medium.com/run-cocoapods-on-apple-silicon-and-macos-big-sur-developer-transition-kit-b62acffc1387

user_3818009 · Answer

Closing all instances of Terminal, then re-opening terminal and running pod install in the relevant directory did the job for me :)

You may have encountered a bug in the Ruby interpreter or extension libraries

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