On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 3:08 AM, Brad Hards <br...@frogmouth.net> wrote: > #3 0x000000000042b3d6 in qemu_malloc (size=2128) at qemu-malloc.c:49
It's only slightly more than 2 KB. When malloc(3) fails it returns NULL, it doesn't crash. As Mulyadi suggested, this looks like heap corruption. If you have no idea where the problem is coming from, you might like to try valgrind(1). Stefan