Just wanted to repport that I'm having the same problem, with world dying after character creation. I tried the fix you posted above, tofuwarrior, but it didn't seem to help. Hopefull I'll have some time to poke at this over the weekend
edit: here's where it dies on me: (linux 2.4.25)
Code:
Name approval request for:Netmazk race:6 class:11
Character creation request from netmazk LS#3213 (x.x.x.x:3853) :
Name: Netmazk
Race: 6 Class: 11 Gender: 0 Deity: 206 Start zone: 5
STR STA AGI DEX WIS INT CHA Total
60 65 90 90 83 134 60 582
Face: 3 Eye colors: 0 0
Hairstyle: 0 Haircolor: 0
Beard: 0 Beardcolor: 0
Validating char creation info...
Found 0 errors in character creation request
[2] Segmentation fault ./world