On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 08:37:36AM +0900, Brad Tilley wrote:
> Quoting Brad Tilley <rtilley / vt.edu>:
> 
> > ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [x86_64-linux]
> >
> > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/hpricot-0.4/lib/hpricot/traverse.rb:344: [BUG]
> > Segmentation fault
> 
> Sometimes, this error is produced:
> 
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/hpricot-0.4/lib/hpricot/tag.rb:32: [BUG]
> rb_gc_mark(): unknown data type 0x38(0x59d240) non object

Similar problems have been brought up on 32-bit Ubuntu[1] with 1.8.4.  The fellow
moved to 1.8.5 and had no further problems.  Some garbage pointer is finding its
way into an object.

All bugs should be reported to the Hpricot site[2], which accepts your Rubyforge
account quite handily, and I will walk you through getting a trace with gdb.

_why

[1] http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/ticket/21
[2] http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot