[chef] Re: Segmentation fault when I upload cookbooks

[Bryan McLellan < >]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Gustavo 
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 wrote:
> I'm getting the following segfault when I upload cookbooks to chef server:
>
>     /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/chef/checksum_cache.rb:174: [BUG] Segmentation
> fault
>     ruby 1.8.7 (2010-08-16 patchlevel 302) [x86_64-linux]
>
> I'm running chef server and clients on Debian Squeeze amd64.

The 'easiest' path for Ruby segfaults most of the time is upgrading to
a newer Ruby. These patches rarely get backported.

A few routes:
1) Backporting Ruby from wheezy/testing, it contains Ruby 1.8.7.352-2.
For instance, using pbuilder:
http://edseek.com/~jasonb/articles/pbuilder_backports/
2) Upgrade to Debian wheezy/testing.
3) Remove all ruby packages from apt and install Ruby from source
4) Use RVM to install a confined Ruby (and live with the consequences
of what it does to your environment)

Bryan