Comment 17 for bug 245925

Hah! In a virtual machine with Kubuntu 8.10 and various Mesa versions installed from source, I got a recording that
- crashes after 15 seconds with Mesa 7.0.2
- runs through cleanly with Mesa 7.1, 7.2 and 6.5.3 (the last of series 6)
All with the same binary of Armagetronad, just the Mesa libraries were exchanged.

So, at least as far as software rendering is concerned, the lies with the 7.0.x series of Mesa, and it has been fixed by now. Please try to upgrade your version of Mesa to at least 7.1 and try again.