Controlling maya crash

[me_spearhead]

If a application is crashing on linux with error like mentioned below :

*** glibc detected *** /usr/autodesk/maya8.5-x64/bin/maya.bin: free(): invalid pointer: 0x00002aab30d3d010 ***
*** glibc detected *** /usr/autodesk/maya8.5-x64/bin/maya.bin: free(): invalid pointer: 0x0000000025e2b7e0 ***
*** glibc detected *** /usr/autodesk/maya8.5-x64/bin/maya.bin: free(): invalid pointer: 0x00002aab30d75010 ***

maya encountered a fatal error

Signal: 11 (Unknown Signal)
Stack trace:
  /lib64/libpthread.so.0 [0x2b999212d140]
  /usr/autodesk/maya8.5-x64/lib/libAG.so [0x2b99890d5232]
  ag_delete
  TagSurface::clearAG()
  TnurbsSurface::~TnurbsSurface()
  TdataSimpleNurbsSurface::reset()
  TdataSimpleNurbsSurface::~TdataSimpleNurbsSurface()
  TmultiSharedObject::unref(unsigned int)
  Tdata::reset()
  TsurfaceExtractor::~TsurfaceExtractor()
  TsurfaceExtractorSurface::~TsurfaceExtractorSurface()
  TdataNurbsSurface::reset()
  TdataNurbsSurface::~TdataNurbsSurface()
  TmultiSharedObject::unref(unsigned int)
  Tdata::reset()
  Tdata::operator=(Tdata const&)
  TdataHandle::deepCopy(TdataHandle const&)
  TdependNode::dbEvaluate(TmsgEval&)
  TdagObject::dbEvaluate(TmsgEval&)
  TdependNode::processEval(TmsgEval&)
  TmsgEval::send()
  TconnectionMulti::evaluate(TmsgEval&, Tconnection*)
  TconnectionSingle::evaluate(TmsgEval&, Tconnection*)
  Tplug::evalConnectionValue(bool, TdgContext const&, TdataHandle&) const
  Tplug::evaluateValue(TdataHandle&, TdataBlock const&, bool) const
  TdataBlockDG::value(Tattribute const&)
  TdnPointOnSurfaceInfo::computePlug(Tplug const&, TdataBlock&)
  TdependNode::dbEvaluate(TmsgEval&)
  TdependNode::processEval(TmsgEval&)
  TmsgEval::send()
Writing crash report in /usr/tmp/render.20090419.1939.crash
// Maya exited with status 1

How can it be avoided at the OS level. I am using opensuse 10 and 10.1 (both 64 bit) which runs Maya 8.5 (64 bit). Maya crashes intermittently with the above 2 errors. With no control over the application source code, how can the error be resolved at OS level ?

Thanks in advance for assistance.

[Rubberman]

The short answer is "not likely". According to the Autodesk Maya web pages, version 8.5 is supposed to be compatible with Suse 10.1 in 32-bit or 64-bit with Intel Dual Core Xeon processors. Have you reported this problem to Autodesk? Perhaps they have a patch for it?

FYI, signal 11 is SIGSEGV, a segmentation fault, which means that something has munged memory and probably nuked those pointers that free() is complaining about. That is a programming error, pure and "simple".