# Rake segmentation fault

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-segmentation-fault/91630>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [April 10, 2007, 11:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-segmentation-fault/91630 "2007-04-10T23:31:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Zouplaz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zouplaz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Zouplaz)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2007, 11:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-segmentation-fault/91630/1 "2007-04-10T23:31:23Z")

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Hello, I have a problem not directly related with the language itself  
but (maybe) with rake : I get a segfault when running rake:functionals  
since I’ve updated my system (to rails 1.2.2 and rake 0.7.2)  
I don’t have any idea about the file causing the seg fault, I just see  
that the seg fault occurs, without any clue.

oaded suite  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.2/lib/rake/rake\_test\_loader  
Started  
…(eval):5: [BUG] Segmentation fault  
ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i386-linux]

rake aborted!  
Command failed with status (): [/usr/bin/ruby -Ilib:test  
"/usr/lib/ruby/ge…]

(See full trace by running task with --trace)

Using --trace gives some more :

Command failed with status (): [/usr/bin/ruby -Ilib:test  
"/usr/lib/ruby/ge…]  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.2/lib/rake.rb:730:in `sh' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.2/lib/rake.rb:737:in`sh’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.2/lib/rake.rb:816:in `sh' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.2/lib/rake.rb:811:in`sh’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.2/lib/rake.rb:751:in `ruby' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.2/lib/rake.rb:816:in`ruby’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.2/lib/rake.rb:811:in `ruby' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.2/lib/rake/testtask.rb:117:in`define’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.2/lib/rake.rb:835:in `verbose' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.2/lib/rake/testtask.rb:102:in`define’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.2/lib/rake.rb:399:in `execute' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.2/lib/rake.rb:399:in`execute’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.2/lib/rake.rb:369:in `invoke' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/thread.rb:135:in`synchronize’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.2/lib/rake.rb:362:in `invoke' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.2/lib/rake.rb:1935:in`run’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.2/lib/rake.rb:1935:in `run’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.2/bin/rake:7  
/usr/bin/rake:16

I’ve tried to run each individual test, none of them produced a seg  
fault.

Ruby version is 1.8.4 (CentOS, the OS I’m using don’t provide an  
official 1.8.6 release)

BTW, does anybody knows about a CentOS (Redhat Ent Server) compatible  
package ? Thanks

Thanks

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**Author:** ![Zouplaz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zouplaz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Zouplaz)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 7:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-segmentation-fault/91630/2 "2007-04-11T07:15:50Z")

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On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 06:30:08AM +0900, Zouplaz wrote:

> Ruby version is 1.8.4 (CentOS, the OS I’m using don’t provide an  
> official 1.8.6 release)
> 
> BTW, does anybody knows about a CentOS (Redhat Ent Server) compatible  
> package ? Thanks

[http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/testing/i386/RPMS/](http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/testing/i386/RPMS/)  
gives you 1.8.5, so maybe that’s worth a try.