From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2008-07-22T14:20:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Facing Segmentation Fault

On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 14:15 +0900, Darshana Gangwal wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> 
> We are working on project running ruby 1.8.5 on UNIX.
> 
> We have been getting segmentation faults [BUG] fairly consistently (but
> at unpredictable times)
> If anyone faced this kind of issue before or anyone can provide
> pointers, it will be very helpful.
> 
> 
> Regards
> Darshana

If you have gdb, disable the ulimit on core dump files. Then when you
get a segfault, go into the core dump with gdb, do a stack backtrace and
file a bug report. Given a stack backtrace, it shouldn't take them too
long to find it.

If you can, upgrade to 1.8.6. 1.8.5 is not supported any more.
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