AstroMenace segmentation fault

[jjf]

I found a really cool space scroller, free for Linux (shareware Win version). It runs for a couple minutes, then crashes to the desktop with a segmentation fault. I ran strace on it. Here are the last few lines of the file:

gettimeofday({1169180369, 719147}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1169180369, 719263}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1169180369, 719480}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1169180369, 719558}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1169180369, 719623}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1169180369, 720401}, NULL) = 0
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
rt_sigaction(SIGSEGV, {SIG_DFL}, {0xb7f0b6c0, [], 0}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_DFL}, {0xb7f127c0, [INT], SA_RESTART}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGTERM, {SIG_DFL}, {0xb7f127c0, [TERM], SA_RESTART}, 8) = 0
write(12, "_\1\2\0\v\0\0\3+\0\1\0", 12) = 12
read(12, "\1\1\236\0\0\0\0\0\16\0\0\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\4\0\0\ 0\274"..., 32) = 32
write(12, "\33\1\2\0\0\0\0\0 \0\2\0\0\0\0\0+\0\1\0", 20) = 20
read(12, "\1\1\241\0\0\0\0\0\16\0\0\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\4\0\0\ 0\274"..., 32) = 32
write(12, "\210\2\2\0\0\0\0\0+\0\1\0", 12) = 12
read(12, "\1\1\243\0\0\0\0\0\16\0\0\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\4\0\0\ 0\274"..., 32) = 32
write(13, "+\23\1\0", 4) = 4
read(13, "\1\1\36\0\0\0\0\0\16\0\0\3\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\4\0\0\0 \274"..., 32) = 32
write(13, "\217\5\4\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0", 16) = 16
read(13, "\1\0\37\0\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0p\264D\10@\262D\1 0\200"..., 32) = 32
brk(0xb7e2000 <unfinished ...>


But I have no idea where to go from here. Anything I could do to fix this? Neverwinter Nights also experiences random crashes on me after 5-30 minutes of play. Could they be related?

And what's with all the calls to gettimeofday()? (There are hundreds tens of thousands of them in the trace file.)

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