Attempting to install Ruby causes Kernel Panic in Ubuntu 18.04

[jms1989]

Description

Following instructions to install ruby results in kernel panic of Ubuntu 18.04. Hard reboot of VM or System is required to recover.

Steps to reproduce

1. Import GPG Key
2. curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash

Expected behavior

Ruby should successfully install.

Actual behavior

michael@ruby-debug:~$ rvm install 2.4 --debug
ruby-2.4.4 - install
ruby-2.4.4 - #already removed src/ruby-2.4.4
ruby-2.4.4 - #already removed rubies/ruby-2.4.4
Searching for binary rubies, this might take some time.
Running(16): curl --fail --location --max-redirs 10 --max-time 1800 --silent --insecure --location --list-only --max-time 5 --head https://rvm_io.global.ssl.fastly.net/binaries/ubuntu/18.04/x86_64/ruby-2.4.4.tar.bz2 --insecure
Remote file does not exist https://rvm_io.global.ssl.fastly.net/binaries/ubuntu/18.04/x86_64/ruby-2.4.4.tar.bz2
Running(16): curl --fail --location --max-redirs 10 --max-time 1800 --silent --insecure --location --list-only --max-time 5 --head https://s3.amazonaws.com/jruby.org/downloads/ruby-2.4.4.tar.bz2 --insecure

Environment info

michael@ruby-debug:~$ rvm info

system:

  system:
    uname:        "Linux ruby-debug 4.15.0-20-generic #21-Ubuntu SMP Tue Apr 24 06:16:15 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux"
    name:         "Ubuntu"
    version:      "18.04"
    architecture: "x86_64"
    bash:         "/bin/bash => GNU bash, version 4.4.19(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)"
    zsh:          " => not installed"
    remote_path:  "ubuntu/18.04/x86_64"

  rvm:
    version:      "1.29.3 (master)"
    updated:      "33 minutes 36 seconds ago"
    path:         "/home/michael/.rvm"
    autolibs:     "[4] Allow RVM to use package manager if found, install missing dependencies, install package manager (only OS X)."

  homes:
    gem:          "not set"
    ruby:         "not set"

  binaries:
    ruby:         ""
    irb:          ""
    gem:          ""
    rake:         ""

  environment:
    PATH:         "/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/home/michael/.rvm/bin:/home/michael/.rvm/bin"
    GEM_HOME:     ""
    GEM_PATH:     ""
    MY_RUBY_HOME: ""
    IRBRC:        ""
    RUBYOPT:      ""
    gemset:       ""

[jms1989]

Running the installer with the '--trace' appended results in this.

https://i.imgur.com/g2ZHqPA.png

One interesting detail. I ran the same command on a vbox vm with ubuntu 18.04 freshly installed and it installed just fine. It couldn't find any binaries so it built ruby instead, which is fine. The problem installation is running on my VMware ESXI box. The VM keeps hanging on it being unable to find the binaries.