Issue #4339 has been updated by Motohiro KOSAKI. Status changed from Assigned to Feedback Vit, please send us an updated patch. thank you. ---------------------------------------- Backport #4339: Segmentation fault during Marshal.load http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/4339 Author: Sean Bradly Status: Feedback Priority: Normal Assignee: Shyouhei Urabe Category: core Target version: =begin Conditions that seem to have to be satisfied: 1) A call to Marshal.load must be interrupted by a context switch. 2) Another thread calls GC.start manually. 3) The object being marshaled needs to have a lot of child objects to be reliable. This appears to be a thread-safety issue affecting Ruby 1.8.x only. It triggers reliably for me on: Ubuntu -> ruby 1.8.7 (2010-06-23 patchlevel 299) [i686-linux] Ubuntu-rvm -> ruby 1.8.7 (2010-12-23 patchlevel 330) [i686-linux] MacRuby -> ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [universal-darwin10.0] Mac-rvm -> ruby 1.8.7 (2010-08-16 patchlevel 302) [i686-darwin10.4.0] =end -- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org