From: chris+ggl@... (Chris Sheppard)
Date: 2004-09-18T02:54:45+09:00
Subject: Weird crash in Windows Ruby (installer, 1.8.2rc7a)

Hi.  I'm running a script on Ruby on Windows 2000, using the Ruby
Installer for Windows, version 1.8.2rc7a, and I very occasionally get
a very strange problem:  it goes into the 'crash' mode, (similar to
what's shown for the Win32OLE bug on 1.8.1, which used to bite me
pretty regularly so I went to 'highly experimental' 1.8.2 versions for
a while; glad the installer is up to 1.8.2 now...).  The weird thing
is that it doesn't ALWAYS happen, and it happens on a line that looks
like, literally:

       until result =~ /#{PROMPT}$/

What's up with that?  I've overwritten the main versions of the
interpreter with debug-symbols on; would this radically change things?
 Because everything else seems to work ok...  (ie I didn't build every
version of every library with the debug symbols, just the main stuff).
 I seem to recall having this problem before tho, so I'm just
wondering what could be causing it, and what I could do to try to
debug it?