From: Carol Almquist <calmquist@...>
Date: 2004-05-19T05:57:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem using YAML

0.44 - is that the latest?

-----Original Message-----
From: why the lucky stiff [mailto:ruby-talk@whytheluckystiff.net]
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 3:18 PM
To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Subject: Re: Problem using YAML


Carol Almquist wrote:

>I am using ruby 1.8.1 and yaml to store data records.  After a few minutes
I
>get one of the following error messages.
>
>/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:39: [BUG] rb_gc_mark(): unknown data type
>0x0(0x40184108) non object
>ruby 1.8.1 (2003-12-25) [i686-linux]
>
>Aborted
>
>OR
>
>/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:193: [BUG] Segmentation fault
>ruby 1.8.1 (2003-12-25) [i686-linux]
>
>Aborted
>
I'll try this out on my Linux box at home later this evening.  It ran 
great for an hour on my FreeBSD machine, until I killed it. I'm running 
today's snapshot of 1.9.0.  Still, the extension code should be the same 
on the snapshot you checked out.

I thought the 'non object' bug was fixed a few weeks ago.  Let's make 
sure your extension is installing properly.  What does your 
YAML::Syck::VERSION read?

_why