# Mongrel segfaults **URL:** \ **Category:** Ferret\ **Created:** [April 26, 2007, 5:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-segfaults/92969 "2007-04-26T05:28:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dburkes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@dburkes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dburkes)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2007, 5:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-segfaults/92969/1 "2007-04-26T05:28:17Z")
I have seen several threads here and elsewhere about ferret and/or aaf causing seemingly random segfaults in mongrel. However, I didn’t see in any of these threads if a resolution was ever offered. I am currently experiencing this problem and I am keen to get a solution. I appreciate any update that anyone can give me. Best Regards, Danny ---
**Author:** ![dburkes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@dburkes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dburkes)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2007, 10:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-segfaults/92969/2 "2007-04-26T10:06:20Z")
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 05:28:17AM +0200, Danny B. wrote: > I have seen several threads here and elsewhere about ferret and/or aaf > causing seemingly random segfaults in mongrel. However, I didn’t see in > any of these threads if a resolution was ever offered. > > I am currently experiencing this problem and I am keen to get a > solution. I appreciate any update that anyone can give me. A bit more information would possibly help 😉 i.e. platform, index size, using DRb or not, … Don’t you get any information about where the error happened? You could also try doing a ‘killall -USR1 mongrel\_rails’ to let mongrel issue more debug information. Jens – Jens Krämer webit! Gesellschaft für neue Medien mbH Schnorrstraße 76 | 01069 Dresden Telefon +49 351 46766-0 | Telefax +49 351 46766-66 removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid | [www.webit.de](http://www.webit.de) Amtsgericht Dresden | HRB 15422 GF Sven Haubold, Hagen Malessa ---
**Author:** ![dburkes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@dburkes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dburkes)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2007, 4:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-segfaults/92969/3 "2007-04-26T16:00:38Z")
> A bit more information would possibly help 😉 i.e. platform, index > size, using DRb or not, … Platform is OS X 10.4.9, not using DRb. This is happening in development mode, with trivially-sized indexes. In fact, I just reproduced it with no index (that is, before the index had been built). We have only one aaf model, and we do disable\_ferret(:always) from a before\_save filter, and update the index manually from a cron job. The crash I just reproduced happened before the index had ever been updated. > Don’t you get any information about where the error happened? You could > also try doing a ‘killall -USR1 mongrel\_rails’ to let mongrel issue more > debug information. Thanks, didn’t realize I could do that. Here is what I get on stderr- * * * ## /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active\_support/core\_ext/module/inclusion.rb:4: [BUG] Bus Error ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [powerpc-darwin8.6.0] Doesn’t seem like there’s much there. Best Regards, Danny ---
**Author:** ![dburkes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@dburkes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dburkes)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2007, 6:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-segfaults/92969/4 "2007-04-26T18:30:04Z")
> Strange. And that did happen without doing a search or update? Correct. This happened just doing a page load that had nothing to do with search or update. > You could checkout the Ferret source and run Ferret’s test suite, just > to make sure there’s nothing really broken. Hmmm- good idea. I’ll try it today and post here if I find anything. In the meantime, I have seen other reports of this bug on OS x- no one has been able to find out why this happens on OS X only? Best Regards, Danny ---
**Author:** ![dburkes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@dburkes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dburkes)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2007, 6:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-segfaults/92969/5 "2007-04-26T18:27:06Z")
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 04:00:38PM +0200, Danny B. wrote: > ## ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [powerpc-darwin8.6.0] Strange. And that did happen without doing a search or update? You could checkout the Ferret source and run Ferret’s test suite, just to make sure there’s nothing really broken. Jens – Jens Krämer webit! Gesellschaft für neue Medien mbH Schnorrstraße 76 | 01069 Dresden Telefon +49 351 46766-0 | Telefax +49 351 46766-66 removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid | [www.webit.de](http://www.webit.de) Amtsgericht Dresden | HRB 15422 GF Sven Haubold, Hagen Malessa