For me it also crashes pretty consistently (using a build of Sage 4.6.alpha2 on 64-bit Ubuntu, which I know passes tests except some clearly irrelevant known issues). It looks to me like the error isn't in the real root finding code per se, but comes up when doing "change_ring(RR)" on any polynomial with non-constant symbolic entries:
sage: a = var('a') sage: R.<x> = a.parent()[] sage: (x - a).change_ring(RR) # boom! David -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org