From: "Berger, Daniel" <djberge@...>
Date: 2003-12-10T06:29:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Segfault in 1.8.1p3

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nathaniel Talbott [mailto:nathaniel@talbott.ws] 
> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 2:07 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: Segfault in 1.8.1p3
> 
> 
> On Dec 9, 2003, at 08:24, Nathaniel Talbott wrote:
> 
> > Unfortunately, I don't have much information at this point, 
> but here's
> > what I do have:
> >
> >   [2003-12-08 12:55:39] INFO  WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=22231
> > port=2222
> >   /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:47: [BUG] Segmentation fault
> >   ruby 1.8.1 (2003-12-05) [i386-linux]
> >
> > timeout.rb line 47 seems innocuous enough; it simply kills 
> the timeout
> > thread if it is still running. Any ideas?
> >
> > If I discover anything else, I'll let you know (although, of course,
> > it only happens under load :-/ ).
> 
> The segfault occurs at inconsistent times (sometimes almost 
> twice in a 
> row, sometimes it'll go hours), and in inconsistent places 
> (I've had it 
> segfault in timeout.rb and in various WEBrick files).
> 
> I've managed to coax a backtrace out of it:
> 
>    (gdb) bt
>    #0  0x409db64c in ?? ()
>    #1  0x400e81e1 in siglongjmp () from /lib/libc.so.6
>    #2  0x400e814c in siglongjmp () from /lib/libc.so.6
>    #3  0x40022426 in longjmp () from /lib/libpthread.so.0

What options did you build Ruby with?

Dan