libtidy-ruby [BUG] Segmentation fault after upgrade to Hardy

[Piotr Romanczuk]

Binary package hint: libtidy-ruby

/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/tidy/tidybuf.rb:39: [BUG] Segmentation fault

After upgrade to Hardy I'm getting error when trying to use tidy in my Rails application

[Piotr Romanczuk (porbas)]

Problem solved after manual install libtidy-ruby and libtidy-ruby1.8 from lntrepid

sudo dpkg -i libtidy-ruby1.8_1.1.2-3_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i libtidy-ruby_1.1.2-3_all.deb

[Leon (leonbo)]

I'm having the same problem. I installed the libtidy package with apt. Then I installed the tidy package with the gem command. Then when I use tidy in some ruby I constantly get:

/home/leon/.rubygems/gems/tidy-1.1.2/lib/tidy/tidybuf.rb:39: [BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [x86_64-linux]

Aborted (core dumped)

When I install the intrepid libtidy package: same error. Only when I installed the Gutsy version I believe (libtidy-0.99-0_20051018-1build1_amd64.deb) it don't get the segmentation fault. The Hardy version also gives a segmentation fault. The alhpa 5 of Intrepid Ibex also generated the same segmentation fault.

[radsaq (radsaq)]

Anyone ever plan on fixing this? Because it's still broken in 11.04.

[Jose Angelini (joseangelini-gmail)]

you have to add 1 line to the tidybuf.rb
in the TidyBuffer = struct
you ougth to include:
  "int* allocator",
look at this http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=10007&group_id=435&atid=1744

[radsaq (radsaq)]

Understood, but it's still pretty terrible to have to do this to every new Ubuntu install to get a functional package.

[Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount)]

Marking as confirmed because it happens to several users.