From: "jshow (Jodi Showers)" Date: 2012-04-09T22:49:11+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:44223] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6246] 1.9.3-p125 intermittent segfault Issue #6246 has been updated by jshow (Jodi Showers). Dennis, looking at your ruby trace, it looks like you've run into something else It appears that you are on osx, and there are some documented (try google) about ssl and ruby - seems that the ssl libs shipped with osx are not compatible with the latest builds of ruby ---------------------------------------- Bug #6246: 1.9.3-p125 intermittent segfault https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6246#change-25748 Author: jshow (Jodi Showers) Status: Open Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: Target version: ruby -v: ruby 1.9.3p125 (2012-02-16 revision 34643) [x86_64-linux] I've seen this behavior in 1.9.3p0 and 1.9.3p125 Intermittently, a rails 3.2 rake task will break while compiling assets - about 1 in 10 runs will segfault. Our code is 10K's of lines of proprietary code. I am working on a simplified version you can use. RAILS_ENV=new_staging bundle exec rake assets:precompile --trace command: https://gist.github.com/2254457 (stacktrace and gem list) backtrace : https://gist.github.com/2286260 Operating System : Debian Squeeze 6.0.4 Ruby installed through RVM 1.11.3 -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/