[libxml-devel] Frequent crashes of libxml-ruby with Ruby 1.9.1

Rolf Timmermans r.timmermans at voormedia.com
Thu May 7 08:20:18 EDT 2009


Hi Charlie,

Unfortunately the errors do not occur in our test environment.
It seems to happen during garbage collection, but so far have not been  
able to set up a test case that reproduces it.

Kind regards,

Rolf Timmermans

On 4 mei 2009, at 03:13, Charlie Savage wrote:

> Rolf,
>
>> Currently we're building a Rails application that uses libxml-ruby  
>> (1.1.3) to parse some documents and loop over its contents with  
>> xpath expressions.
>> When running the application with Ruby 1.8.7-p72, everything works  
>> flawlessly. With Ruby 1.9.1-p0, however, we get frequent double- 
>> linked list errors, like the one below.
>> Is this is a known issue? If not, some pointers that may help us  
>> isolate the issue would be very welcome. Thank you!
>
> Do you by chance have a test case?
>
> Charlie



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