Checking the bugs at https://developer.blender.org this seems to be a problem that might have been fixed upstream recently. Also I could reproduce the problem with a different build: # Blender 2.79 (sub 0), Commit date: 2017-09-11 10:43, Hash 5bd8ac9abfa # backtrace ./blender(BLI_system_backtrace+0x20) [0x1a6c8e0] ./blender() [0x107a525] /lib64/libc.so.6(+0x36160) [0x7fe62777e160] ./blender(free+0x122) [0x51ca592] ./blender(MEM_lockfree_reallocN_id+0x5d) [0x1c1778d] ./blender() [0x18554b8] ./blender() [0x1853835] ./blender() [0x18541fb] ./blender() [0x1858a45] ./blender() [0x1a6dc39] ./blender() [0x1a6cb6f] /lib64/libpthread.so.0(+0x7559) [0x7fe628d71559] /lib64/libc.so.6(clone+0x3f) [0x7fe62784081f]