Gnome 2.12 on amd64 -CURRENT gdb shows the fault takes place here #0 0x00000008016831f0 in strlen () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x0000000800c53bd5 in libintl_dcigettext () from /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.6 #2 0x000000000042633d in helpings_translatestringlist () #3 0x00000000004283cc in cddrives_init () #4 0x0000000000413b61 in main () david