|cos|: it might help us help you if you tell us which programs were crashing (or was the kernel crashing?)

sommerfeld: It's rxvt per the linked doc.

Good morning! Correct, my troubles are with (u)rxvt. It seems to be tripping over a SIGABRT whenever a buffer gets full.

My first attempt at keeping DWARF failed, but I guess that mainly due to me not trying hard to understand what I did,