From: "aktxyz@..." <aktxyz@...>
Date: 2007-11-15T05:45:07+09:00
Subject: Re: seg faults with 1.8.6

On Nov 14, 2:41 pm, "akt...@gmail.com" <akt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently upgraded from ruby 1.8.5 to 1.8.6.  At first I was using
> the prebuilt binaries that come with Ubuntu Gutsy, but now I am using
> a built from source version of 1.8.6 p110.
>
> I am seeing seg faults several times a day in my rails applications
> (was hoping moving to the latest release would fix it).
>
> Here is the latest...
>
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/ostruct.rb:74: [BUG] Segmentation fault
> ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-23) [i686-linux]
>
> Aborted
>
> $ ruby --version
> ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-23 patchlevel 110) [i686-linux]
>
> This is a big problem for us, any ideas on how to solve it.  Note the
> seg fault does not always happen in ostruct, although it has happened
> there numerous times.

of course, reproducing this is difficult, it just does not happen
everytime or even that often.