Cocoapods setup stuck on pod setup command on terminal

Question

MacBook-Pro:~ skbc$ pod setup --verbose
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/universal-darwin13/rbconfig.rb:212: warning: Insecure world writable dir /usr/local/bin in PATH, mode 040777

Setting up CocoaPods master repo

Cloning spec repo `master` from `https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git` (branch `master`)
  $ /usr/bin/git clone 'https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git' master
  Cloning into 'master'...

Have gone through resources provided by Cocoapods website, SO and few video tutorials. Nothing happening even after waiting for a couple of hours, however still trying to figure out what may be the problem is?

I would very much appreciate your comments and suggestions.

Solution 1

It is not stuck. I thought the same until I went to the "Activity Monitor" of the system and checked the "Network" tab.

Then you will see that something is being downloaded. A process called git-remote-http is in charge of this.

Just wait! It happened the same for me :)

Good luck!

Solution 2

To get a progression, you can clone master yourself:

pod repo remove master
git clone https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git ~/.cocoapods/repos/master
pod setup

Solution 3

This might be due to the http://blog.cocoapods.org/Repairing-Our-Broken-Specs-Repository/ issue... You will have to remove the repo and re-setup it...

pod repo remove master
pod setup

worked for me

Answered in below question as well, Error on pod install

Solution 4

I think you need to follow the steps to get rid of the situation and also add --verbose to check whats is happening in front of each command eg:

$ pod setup --verbose

• pod repo remove master
• pod setup
• pod install

Solution 5

This is not Stuck or not doing anything its downloading/cloning repository (total size is around 360MB, I am not sure)

1) Open Activity Monitor

2) Select Network Tab

3) Check bellow Google chrome -> git-remote-https

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Comments

[Pavan Kotesh]

Do I need to do this or I should wait as suggested in the answer by @Manuel M. ?

[Johannes]

Ha ha, even removing spec repo 'master' takes forever here... :/

[Hahnemann]

Excellent tip about Activity Monitor. Thank you!

[Ammar Mujeeb]

and for me quitting this process was the quickest way to start the pod process once it was stuck on "Updating local specs repositories" on pod install

[iphonic]

In both cases pod install or, pod setup it updates local repository. We don't have choice wait as suggested by @Maunel M, it works after sometime.

[Ashok]

"Activity Monitor"->"Network" tab !! nice tracking to make sure we are not stuck.

[An Nguyen]

I use command below to boost up the cloning time: git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git ~/.cocoapods/repos/master

[Amit]

Any reason the download happening is so slow. (26 KB/s)

[Daniel Schlaug]

I'd blame github which have felt awfully slow these past days.

[Matrosov Oleksandr]

cool man, it works perfect, but seems when we already pull some data form git then there is still stack for installing operation. how we can track if it works or not

[Cœur]

CocoaPods 1.0.0 will not be officially supporting shallow clones anymore. It will even attempt to --unshallow: github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/issues/5016

[Cœur]

@AnNguyen CocoaPods 1.0.0 will not be officially supporting shallow clones anymore. It will even attempt to --unshallow: github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/issues/5016

[Cœur]

Github and CocoaPods are discouraging --unshallow: github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/issues/…

[J.J.]

Permission denied (publickey). fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

[johnrubythecat]

Good directions, and indeed it finall started puling the files. Geez it was only couple hundred MB.

[Cœur]

@JordanJohnson try my answer if you haven't setup SSH keys for github.

[Vyacheslav]

One whole date past and I found this solution. I my case I have to retype 'git clone' three times to download it correctly.

[Admin]

pod setup is one time thing or do i have to it for every project ?

[lerp90]

This answer + pod setup --verbose helped to calm my impatience with it

[ePascoal]

well i'm stuck on 92.4Mb. This is painful.

[kubilay]

Thanks, after seeing Activity Monitor, I've decided giving up on Cocoapods forever.

[JSBach]

for late joiners, here is the latest repo size: stackoverflow.com/questions/21022638/…

[Vaibhav Saran]

Awesome! I can explain how much research I did today but nothing needed to do :((

[Konstantinos Natsios]

what if also in activity monitor also stops??? although i have stable internet connection

[Ginzo Milani]

Thank you, you saved me on this issue. MacOS VMWare, had same problem switched to bridge after doing control panel -> repair VMWare then repatching my VMWare for MacOS fixed bridge mode. After fixing bridge mode, and rerunning the setup it went smoothly.

[Pedro Paulo Amorim]

Why I am downloading 2Gb?

[Vladimir Obrizan]

Thanks for the solution! At least it shows that something happening. ;)