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> rvm install ruby-1.9.2-p180 --patch /tmp/load.patch -n patched
Installing Ruby from source to: /Users/mperham/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180-patched, this may take a while depending on your cpu(s)...

ruby-1.9.2-p180-patched - #fetching 
ruby-1.9.2-p180-patched - #downloading ruby-1.9.2-p180, this may take a while depending on your connection...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 8609k  100 8609k    0     0   138k      0  0:01:02  0:01:02 --:--:--  262k
ruby-1.9.2-p180-patched - #extracted to /Users/mperham/.rvm/src/ruby-1.9.2-p180-patched (already extracted)
Applying patch '/tmp/load.patch' (located at //tmp/load.patch)

ERROR: Error running 'patch -F25 -p1 -f <"//tmp/load.patch"', please read /Users/mperham/.rvm/log/ruby-1.9.2-p180-patched/patch.apply.load.patch.log

Fetching yaml-0.1.3.tar.gz to /Users/mperham/.rvm/archives
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  455k  100  455k    0     0   244k      0  0:00:01  0:00:01 --:--:--  893k
Extracting yaml-0.1.3.tar.gz to /Users/mperham/.rvm/src

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> more /Users/mperham/.rvm/log/ruby-1.9.2-p180-patched/patch.apply.load.patch.log
[2011-06-07 20:00:21] patch -F25 -p1 -f <"//tmp/load.patch"
patching file load.c
Hunk #1 FAILED at 40.
Hunk #2 FAILED at 73.
2 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file load.c.rej

i got the same but rvm cleanup all solved the error