Anyone care go guess what's going on here? This started happening out of the blue. I've since updated Ruby but still get "[BUG] Segmentation fault" on most operations involving ruby, gem, rake, etc. This is just an example, most every usage of gem or rake will do this. They fail repeatedly until they work: ------------------------------------------------------ [xserve:/var/www/rails] admin% sudo gem install chronic Password: Updating metadata for 80 gems from http://gems.rubyforge.org ................................................................................ complete Successfully installed rubyforge-0.4.4 Successfully installed hoe-1.4.0 Successfully installed chronic-0.2.3 3 gems installed Installing ri documentation for rubyforge-0.4.4... /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/parsers/parse_rb.rb:489: [BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24) [powerpc-darwin8.11.0] Abort [xserve:/var/www/rails] admin% sudo gem install chronic Successfully installed chronic-0.2.3 1 gem installed Installing ri documentation for chronic-0.2.3... /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/slex.rb:72: [BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24) [powerpc-darwin8.11.0] Abort [xserve:/var/www/rails] admin% sudo gem install chronic Successfully installed chronic-0.2.3 1 gem installed Installing ri documentation for chronic-0.2.3... /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/slex.rb:76: [BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24) [powerpc-darwin8.11.0] Abort [xserve:/var/www/rails] admin% sudo gem install chronic Successfully installed chronic-0.2.3 1 gem installed Installing ri documentation for chronic-0.2.3... /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/parsers/parse_rb.rb:1477: [BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24) [powerpc-darwin8.11.0] Abort [xserve:/var/www/rails] admin% sudo gem install chronic Successfully installed chronic-0.2.3 1 gem installed Installing ri documentation for chronic-0.2.3... /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/parsers/parse_rb.rb:384: [BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24) [powerpc-darwin8.11.0] Abort [xserve:/var/www/rails] admin% sudo gem install chronic Successfully installed chronic-0.2.3 1 gem installed Installing ri documentation for chronic-0.2.3... Installing RDoc documentation for chronic-0.2.3... /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/parsers/parse_rb.rb:122: [BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24) [powerpc-darwin8.11.0] Abort [xserve:/var/www/rails] admin% sudo gem install chronic /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/source_index.rb:228: [BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24) [powerpc-darwin8.11.0] Abort [xserve:/var/www/rails] admin% sudo gem install chronic Successfully installed chronic-0.2.3 1 gem installed Installing ri documentation for chronic-0.2.3... Installing RDoc documentation for chronic-0.2.3... [xserve:/var/www/rails] admin% ------------------------------------------------------ Thanks in advance -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.