ruby 1.8.6 patchlevel 287 dumps core on 7.0-RELEASE-p7

[Stanislav Sedov]

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On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:33:51 +0100
Saad Kadhi <saad at hush.com> mentioned:

> Hi,
> 
> I am using Ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) on FreeBSD 7.0- 
> RELEASE-p7. I have some code that -among other things- parses XML  
> files and when it does in at least one case, it dumps core with the  
> following error msg:
> 
> -x-x-x-
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/parent.rb:19: [BUG] object allocation  
> during garbage collection phase
> ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11) [i386-freebsd7]
> -x-x-x-
> 
> At times, I get a different error msg:
> -x-x-x-
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/namespace.rb:16: [BUG] object allocation  
> during garbage collection phase
> ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11) [i386-freebsd7]
> -x-x-x-
> 
> I initially developed my code using Ruby 1.8.6 patchlevel 111 on the  
> same platform and everything worked as expected. And when I upgraded  
> to the latest stable version from ports, I started having these  
> issues. Staying with 1.8.6 patchlevel 111 is not an option since this  
> version is riddled with security vulnerabilities.
> 
> Any ideas on how to fix this problem?
> 

Can you, please, check with ruby 1.8.7p72? I have updated the port today.
This problems might be fixed in this release.

If not, we'll look further.

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Stanislav Sedov
ST4096-RIPE
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