# Serious trouble on PPC with Ruby 1.8.6 **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [April 19, 2007, 6:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/serious-trouble-on-ppc-with-ruby-1-8-6/92406 "2007-04-19T06:02:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![julik](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@julik](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/julik)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 6:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/serious-trouble-on-ppc-with-ruby-1-8-6/92406/1 "2007-04-19T06:02:32Z")
Hello fine folks of ruby-talk! I am taking some serious damage with the fresh ruby 1.8.6 after updating from 1.8.4 All the usual rituals were executed including flushing the /usr/local/ lib.ruby hierarchy. I rebuilt ruby a few times. When running make-test-all I get: /ruby-1.8.6/lib/drb/drb.rb:589: [BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13) [powerpc-darwin8.9.0] /ruby-1.8.6/lib/rexml/parsers/streamparser.rb:17: [BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13) [powerpc-darwin8.9.0] and … make: \*\*\* [test-all] Abort trap The rest is all green - dots dots dots Any attempt to use the freshly polished ruby raises issues. For instance, most of rdoc runs end with: Installing RDoc documentation for camping-1.5.180… /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/parsers/parse\_rb.rb:1273: [BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13) [powerpc-darwin8.9.0] This happened to me on about 4 gems already. When I try to do the gem install something, I get a different segfault in a different place altogether: digi:/ruby-1.8.6 julik$ sudo gem install rails /usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/version.rb:136: [BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13) [powerpc-darwin8.9.0] On the second try it does give me the usual “do you want to install activesupport” message Even a seemingly innocent gem list fails: digi:/ruby-1.8.6 julik$ gem list -r \*\*\* REMOTE GEMS \*\*\* Bulk updating Gem source index for: [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org) /usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/source\_index.rb:322: [BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13) [powerpc-darwin8.9.0] IRB works fine, so does ruby -v and friends Works for some gems, does not work for others. Basically I haven’t been getting that many segfaults in a year of using ruby. gcc version 4.0.0 20041026 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 4061), OS X 10.4.9 Could someone give me a clue what is rotten? Black magic failed, I am surely no wizard. ---
**Author:** ![julik](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@julik](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/julik)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 5:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/serious-trouble-on-ppc-with-ruby-1-8-6/92406/2 "2007-04-19T17:58:18Z")
On Apr 19, 2007, at 00:01 , julik wrote: > /ruby-1.8.6/lib/drb/drb.rb:589: [BUG] Segmentation fault > ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13) [powerpc-darwin8.9.0] Can you provide the output from: % gdb ./miniruby gdb\> r ./runruby.rb --extout=.ext – “./test/runner.rb” --basedir="./ test" --runner=console … go boom … gdb\> bt ---
**Author:** ![julik](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@julik](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/julik)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 1:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/serious-trouble-on-ppc-with-ruby-1-8-6/92406/3 "2007-04-20T01:28:17Z")
On Apr 19, 2007, at 6:01 AM, julik wrote: > Bulk updating Gem source index for: [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org) > /usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/source\_index.rb:322: > [BUG] Segmentation fault > ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13) [powerpc-darwin8.9.0] > > IRB works fine, so does ruby -v and friends d’oh turned out this had to do with some remaning binaries in /usr/local/bin after flushing my whole /usr/local/bin|lib|share down the drain I finally can reinstall ruby and gems pronto if only imagick was not such a PITA and sorry for disturbing ---
**Author:** ![julik](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@julik](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/julik)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 2:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/serious-trouble-on-ppc-with-ruby-1-8-6/92406/4 "2007-04-20T02:15:20Z")
On Apr 19, 2007, at 19:27 , julik wrote: > turned out this had to do with some remaning binaries in /usr/local/ > bin > after flushing my whole /usr/local/bin|lib|share down the drain I > finally can reinstall ruby and gems > pronto Ah, cool. No worries. > if only imagick was not such a PITA Depending on what you want to do, you might want to check out image\_science. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![julik](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@julik](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/julik)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 3:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/serious-trouble-on-ppc-with-ruby-1-8-6/92406/5 "2007-05-09T15:16:37Z")
hello guys, i’m experiencing exactly the same behavior as described in the mail before. since there was no solution on the thread i wanted to ask what could be the problem here: (gdb) r ./runruby.rb --extout=.ext – “./test/runner.rb” --basedir=“./ test” --runner=console Starting program: /Users/z3cko/Desktop/compile/ruby-1.8.6/miniruby ./runruby.rb --extout=.ext – “./test/runner.rb” --basedir=“./ test” –runner=console Reading symbols for shared libraries … done Program received signal SIGTRAP, Trace/breakpoint trap. 0x8fe01010 in \_\_dyld\_\_dyld\_start () (gdb) i am wondering if the problem could be related to a blog entry i found: [http://crafterm.net/blog/articles/2006/11/24/segmentation-faults-with-ruby-1-8-4-in-fink-10-4-tree-with-gcc-4](http://crafterm.net/blog/articles/2006/11/24/segmentation-faults-with-ruby-1-8-4-in-fink-10-4-tree-with-gcc-4) i am on an i386 machine, osx 10.4.9, gcc version 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5367). trying to build an universal ruby binary. thanks for the help, mz