I wasn't around for some time, so I checked last week on a trial account how it plays after re-installing Gentoo and changing ISP. I had no problems as of Sunday, and today I payed for my primary account.

First thing I discovered -- the game crashes with "Segmentation fault" if I use Tab in the login screen. And if I use Tab at EULA dialog, it segfaults too (and what even worse, I can't connect to VO instantly after it)

So I finally struggled through these segfaults, played for several minutes (Tab worked fine both in station interface and in flight), and the game segfaulted again. And now it crashes whenever I succeed to get to character selection on entering universe. IRC reports that I am online, VO reports about another segfault.

I tried to remove config.ini and wgaf.cfg and it the game segfaulted right when it finished loading, before showing login screen.

So I am totally screwed, and you have no idea how badly it sucks >_<

Ok, I now I am stupid :)
Athlon 1000/512 mb of RAM @ Gentoo Linux 2.6.18-ck1
Radeon9200/256 mb, proprietary ATI driver version 8.28.8
Using ALSA sound driver (switching to OSS changes nothing)

I found out how to enable Tab in login screen. I simply removed this line from wgaf.cfg:
bind Tab +myzoom
It was referring to this simple bind:
set fov 90
alias +myzoom 'set fov 30'
alias -myzoom 'set fov 90'
bind Tab +myzoom

But anyway the game segfaults when logging in

EDIT: I tried to login with char which was sitting in station, and succeeded. Then I decided to /set fov 80 and undock. And the game segfaulted again.

Ok, looks like I can log in if I set fov to 75 in wgaf.cfg

That's really weird.
Are you using more recent or older video drivers now than you were before?

The drivers didn't change after Sunday (when I had no problems)

Maybe your recent OpenGL changes made it impossible to play with fov 90?

Oh, and the game still segfaults if I run it without wgaf.cfg

And I still get random segfaults on entering sectors even with fov=75

Pretty lots of segfaults in ion storms

...and WH sectors. And everywhere. But mostly in storms and WH sectors.

Wow that's cool. I don't have any problems!

Oh, you have no idea how cool that is

having no problems rule, but my damn computer guy had a LUNCH THING at wok!!! as an extremely probable celebration event that u peeps will b having on VO i am getting the full version at Sunday evening and will not annoy u guys that much except if u ask where i am so u can "help" me with mining or a mission and then destroy me 10 times while i coware helplessly in a crappy bus in some capital of UIT station...

{EDIT} ESPECIALLY U SPUCK
and another thing off topic what happened to that guy SpaceRanger?

Spaced Ranger!

Thanks guys for understanding that I am trying to get attention of devs to my problems

BTW, I have no crashes if I run VO in wine... however it's not playable, as I mouse behaves weirdly in flight

I have no idea. Is the VO Bug Reporter starting when you segfault?

No, it didn't. Maybe it will after this update
EDIT: No it doesn't start the Bug Reporter

Is there a stack dump in errors.log?

no

Bad ram...