Ah, since this bug was reported on an Intel chipset and mine is on
nvidia, it seems the theory that this is an nvidia-glx bug is not
correct.
It seems like a calloc() call for 52 bytes should *really* not fail.
Maybe this is a libc6 bug?
$ apt-cache policy libc6
libc6:
Installed: 2.10.1-0ubuntu11
Candidate: 2.10.1-0ubuntu11
Version table:
*** 2.10.1-0ubuntu11 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
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glxgears crashed with SIGSEGV in calloc()
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/428909
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