Rails - Oct 2005 - mysql_adapter problem, segfault in list action, line 232

Hi there, I''m new to Ruby and Rails both and trying to track down a 
problem with MySQL and the mysql_adapter. It''s not the typical password
hashing problem that I have found many references to online, however I 
am using MySQL 4.1.3, and probably will be moving to MySQL 5 shortly.

I have installed Ruby 1.8.2, the latest production release of Rails 
(using gems) and updated my MySQL library (also using gems). I also have 
tried downloading and compiling the latest C MySQL/Ruby driver, just to 
make sure that I have the right stuff, with the same results.

My developer.log has the following (with ansi escapes removed):

Processing PlaceController#create (for 66.92.17.103 at Sat Oct 15 
10:13:26 PDT 2005)
  Parameters: {"place"=>{"name"=>"This is some
place", "description"=>"A
place that would be nice to go to if only we could list it."}, 
"commit"=>"Create",
"action"=>"create",
"controller"=>"place"}
  Place Columns (0.008184)   SHOW FIELDS FROM places
  Place Columns (0.006617)   SHOW FIELDS FROM places
  SQL (0.000090)   BEGIN
  SQL (0.053878)   INSERT INTO places (`name`, `description`) 
VALUES(''This is some place'', ''A place that would be
nice to go to if
only we could list it.'')
  SQL (0.000099)   COMMIT
Redirected to http://host.name.com/place/list
Completed in 0.10770 (9 reqs/sec) | DB: 0.06887 (63%) 
[http://host.name.com/place/create/]


Processing PlaceController#list (for 66.92.17.103 at Sat Oct 15 10:13:28 
PDT 2005)
  Parameters: {"action"=>"list",
"controller"=>"place"}
  Place Count (0.008895)   SELECT COUNT(*) FROM places

EOF

I include the create log simply to show that I am in fact able to access 
the database successfully. The data is there, but it cannot be listed 
from mysql_adapter (listing it in other clients work fine). Other 
attempts to list using Place.find_all also fail in exactly the same way. 
The Apache error log contains:

[Sat Oct 15 10:13:28 2005] [error] [client 66.92.17.103] 
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.11.1/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb:232:
[BUG] Segmentation fault, referer: http://host.name.com/place/new

I''ve looked at the Subversion repository for mysql_adapter.rb, trying
to
see if there''s something new there that might help. I was getting this 
same error trying to list tables/models with nothing in them, but once I 
incorporated the null checking that is in the latest revision those went 
away. However, listing a table that has data gives this same error. 
Since then I''ve reverted to the current production revision of the
file,
so as to have a clean base against which to apply any suggestions I 
receive from this list.

I found exactly one bug filed by someone who was having this same 
problem. However, their solution seemed to be related to the fact that 
they had multiple versions of MySQL installed and Ruby was linking 
against the wrong libs. I only have one version of MySQL installed as 
far as I can tell, and when I hand-installed the Mysql/Ruby C driver I 
made sure to point it at /var/lib/mysql, where my libs live. So, this 
problem seems to differ in some non-obvious way.

One last, potentially relevant, detail is that I''m running RedHat Linux
3.2.3-26, and Ruby was compiled with gcc 3.2.3 using the typical 
configure; make; make install cycle.

TIA for any help you can provide,

James