aMule CVS up to 20050324 work fine for me, but 20050327 and higher crash on startup. Running Fedora Core 3 with recent updates.
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This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1".
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/amule
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1208141600 (LWP 3808)]
Initialising aMule
Checking if there is an instance already running...
*** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption: 0x0a176cd8 ***
Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
[Switching to Thread -1208141600 (LWP 3808)]
0x0071e7a2 in _dl_sysinfo_int80 () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2