I can confirm this, it hangs when selecting "New game".
With my limited debugging skills, i could only produce a gdb backtrace.
Funnily enough, after quitting/detaching gdb it works and i can play as long as i want (but it hangs again when exiting the game).
I'd be happy if you dump further gdb commands or other instructions here.
Running Ubuntu 7.04; Linux laptop 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
I can confirm this, it hangs when selecting "New game".
With my limited debugging skills, i could only produce a gdb backtrace.
Funnily enough, after quitting/detaching gdb it works and i can play as long as i want (but it hangs again when exiting the game).
I'd be happy if you dump further gdb commands or other instructions here.
Running Ubuntu 7.04; Linux laptop 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux