Document Really Ugly Bugs (coredumps assert fails, etc) [Solaris] Stack frame overwrite on Solaris 2.x (this will produce a seg fault, signal 11). Stacktrace Engraver_group_engraver::Engraver_group_engraver(int) Score_engraver::Score_engraver( ) get_group_engraver_p() We don't know a fix or workaround, but compiling without optimisation might help (Without -O2 optimisation, my execs run fine on Solaris; without -O2, but with purify, it dumps core) [Linux Intel] 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_ = { : I get bitten by this every once in a while, and I am very interested in hints what might be wrong.