This documents serious bugs ******** [Linux ppc, egcs-1.0.2] All compiling with -O2 is suspect, in particular guile-1.3, and Lily herself will break. [All platforms] When dealing with beaming that is not correct (eg quarter notes in beams.), you can get the following assert. This is a serious bug, but a good solution is quite a lot of work. \score{ \melodic{ [c2 c] } } results in lilypond: ../flower/include/varray.hh:141: struct Rhythmic_grouping *& Array::elem(int) const: Assertion `i >=0&&i::operator -(class Cursor) const: Assertion `c.ok()' failed. Aborted (core dumped) [Linux libg++ 2.7] LilyPond occasionally crashes while parsing the initialisation files. This is a very obscure bug, and usually entering the commandline differently "fixes" it. lilypond input.ly and lilypond -I. ./input.ly makes a difference Typical stacktrace: SIGSEGV __libc_malloc (bytes=16384) ?? () yyFlexLexer::yy_create_buffer () Includable_lexer::new_input (this=0x8209a00, s={strh_ = { : This behaviour has been observed with machines that have old libg++ versions (LinuxPPC feb '98, RedHat 4.x). [Linux Intel] A problem resembling the previous: usage of libg++.2.8.x with the wrong version of libc results in a coredump from the scanner while reading the init files. Stacktrace: ios::eof (this=0x0) yyFlexLexer::LexerInput (this=0x8294848, buf=0x82955f0 "", max_size=8192) yyFlexLexer::yy_get_next_buffer (this=0x8294848) My_lily_lexer::yylex (this=0x8294848) Fix: follow the install instructions of libg++: match the right library versions.