On Nov 11, 8:20 am, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote:
> One of my interacts for class is segfaulting in 4.6, but worked fine in
> 4.5.2.  The problem is illustrated below:
>
> sage: V=(QQ^2).span_of_basis([[1,1]])
> sage: v=V([1,1])
> sage: x=sqrt(2)*v
> sage: 3*x
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Unhandled SIGSEGV: A segmentation fault occurred in Sage.
> This probably occurred because a *compiled* component
> of Sage has a bug in it (typically accessing invalid memory)
> or is not properly wrapped with _sig_on, _sig_off.
> You might want to run Sage under gdb with 'sage -gdb' to debug this.
> Sage will now terminate (sorry).
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I'm trying to track this down 
> athttp://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/10250, and it seems to involve
> pynac and the coercion system.  Does anyone have alpha versions of 4.6
> (or 4.5.3, for that matter) that they can test the above code in so we
> can try to pinpoint what change caused the problem?  The code above
> doesn't work for my copy of 4.6alpha3, for example.

I have 4.5.3 on both a Mac (OS X 10.6) and on sage.math, and on both,
your example works fine.  I have 4.6.alpha1 on the same Mac, and I get
the segfault. (I also have 4.6.alpha2 on an OpenSolaris machine, and
that also segfaults.)

--
John

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