Thread:Project:Support desk/Scribunto/lua problem breaks infobox ... Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 139./reply (3)

Agreed, it it is a major source of frustration for many people.

If you have access to ssh, you could log into your web host and try to run lua binary from the command line.

Still, it looks like you have a linux host, so I'm still a little confused about the error code.