Hi Olivier, Olivier skribis: > I see that some time has passed and I believe that the issue can be closed. > > Long story short, my hdd has died and I bought a new one and > re-installed. I could imagine that the errors I was running into were > related to the impending hardware failure -- that's a speculation, > though. Anyway, following your suggestions brought me to the same > point I was at earlier (gdb didnt show anything useful). OK, too bad. Do let us know if you experience a similar crash again. Thank you, Ludo’.