[chef] segfault with CentOS 5.4/5.5 + ruby 1.8.7 + chef 0.10.0

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Hi all,

I noticed a couple of email threads in the past about seg faults and didn't 
see
any resolution so I wanted to share my experience with the same thing 
happening
to us on a few CentOS 5.4 and 5.5 servers (we haven't tested the client on 5.6
yet). I'm consistently able to get our chef-client to segfault whenever it
handles this package resource (haven't had time to try other packages yet):

[Thu, 02 Jun 2011 17:38:17 -0700] INFO: Processing package[logrotate] action
upgrade (logrotate::default line 20)
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.0/bin/../lib/chef/provider/package/yum.rb:75:
[BUG] Segmentation fault

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 17:38:27 -0700] INFO: Processing package[logrotate] action
upgrade (logrotate::default line 20)
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.0/bin/../lib/chef/provider/package/yum.rb:64:
[BUG] Segmentation fault

[Thu, 02 Jun 2011 17:38:53 -0700] INFO: Processing package[logrotate] action
upgrade (logrotate::default line 20)
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.10.0/bin/../lib/chef/provider/package/yum.rb:66:
[BUG] Segmentation fault

We were trying this with ruby 1.8.7 p334 from the FrameOS rbel5 i386 repo.
Since it sounded like an issue with ruby, reinstalling with ruby 1.8.6 p420
(and rebuilding the rbel5 rubygem-chef rpm to relax the ruby version
requirement) seemed to solve the problem.

Is anyone else noticing seg fauls with a combination of CentOS 5.x, ruby 1.8.7
and Chef?

Thanks,
Ray