MudOS issue - Help possibly?

I'm running MudOS v22.2b13, and for some strange reason, I get odd
crashes (segmentation faults).  For instance, the newest one is on a
line like the following: if ( catch( obj = load_object( some_string )
) ).  The object has a simple compile error in it -- returning a
string where it should be returning an int.  Here's the gdb messages I
get when running in debug.

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x080a210c in whashstr (s=0x0, maxn=20) at hash.c:70
70          if (!*s)
(gdb) where
#0  0x080a210c in whashstr (s=0x0, maxn=20) at hash.c:70
#1  0x080a1bc8 in free_string (str=0x0) at stralloc.c:232
#2  0x080aed0b in clean_parser () at compiler.c:2482
#3  0x080ae063 in epilog () at compiler.c:2150
#4  0x080adac6 in compile_file (f=12, name=0xbfffca3c
"gods/shihan/abc.c") at compiler.c:1977
#5  0x08076964 in int_load_object (lname=0xbfffcb98 "gods/shihan/abc",
lpc_obj=0x0) at simulate.c:455
#6  0x08078731 in find_object (str=0xaabb51c "/gods/shihan/abc.c") at
simulate.c:1423
#7  0x08098cf4 in f_find_object () at efuns_main.c:879
#8  0x08071eb8 in eval_instruction (p=0x83798b7
"\002\002AA\005\026c\001)&\006") at interpret.c:3721
#9  0x080720b7 in do_catch (pc=0x83798b7
"\002\002AA\005\026c\001)&\006", new_pc_offset=384) at
interpret.c:3773
#10 0x080717be in eval_instruction (p=0x8379744 "-\v") at
interpret.c:3617
#11 0x0806c4ee in call_program (prog=0x83796e0, offset=4) at
interpret.c:1693
#12 0x08072a61 in apply_low (fun=0x82e9b10 "main", ob=0x8379a60,
num_arg=1) at interpret.c:4144
#13 0x08097681 in f__call_other () at efuns_main.c:242
#14 0x08071eb8 in eval_instruction (p=0x83d6dfe "\003\002ª\025\020")
at interpret.c:3721
#15 0x0806c4ee in call_program (prog=0x83d6878, offset=1318) at
interpret.c:1693
#16 0x08072806 in apply_low (fun=0x80dd690 "process_input",
ob=0xa99fd70, num_arg=1) at interpret.c:4058
#17 0x08072b67 in apply (fun=0x80dd690 "process_input", ob=0xa99fd70,
num_arg=1, where=1) at interpret.c:4206
#18 0x0808c779 in process_input (ip=0x8e2ded0, user_command=0x8e2df04
"update abc") at comm.c:1716
#19 0x0808c930 in process_user_command () at comm.c:1801
#20 0x0807fc2a in backend () at backend.c:176
#21 0x08068110 in main (argc=2, argv=0xbffffb94) at main.c:431

I run on Linux (Debian distrobution)
2.4.21 kernel
GCC = 2.95.4
LIBC5 - 5.4.46

Anyhow, this is bugging the crap out of me... I can't figure it out
and can't open for alpha testing until I have this resolved.

Any help anyone can offer would be greatly appreciated.  I also have a
core dump if needed.

Thanks
- Shihan