Maybe it's useful to someone: #0 0x4003e6a1 in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) where #0 0x4003e6a1 in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x4003f6df in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6 #2 0x8059ce9 in ncExit (code=1) at nntpcache.c:387 #3 0x8059626 in sigsegv (sig=11) at nntpcache.c:209 #4 0xbfff80e4 in ?? () #5 0x4005de70 in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6 #6 0x4005b91b in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6 #7 0x805d9e5 in attachServer (scfg=0x81b9b90) at sockets.c:147 #8 0x805ec75 in Cfemitf (scfg=0x81b9b90, fmt=0x8069b6d "list %s\r\n") at sockets.c:594 #9 0x805687b in fetch_list (scfg=0x81b9b90, list=0x806e8d8) at list.c:409 #10 0x8057131 in updateDaemon (force=0) at list.c:698 #11 0x805becb in master_loop () at nntpcache.c:1159 #12 0x805c9f9 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffffd04, envp=0xbffffd0c) at nntpcache.c:1435 more data on request (well, don't take too long, a 18 MB core file is not something you would like to keep forever). This is on Linux/RedHat 5.1 i386