I can explain the segfaults. phoneME was never meant to be
compiled as a library. I did so anyway to simplify the compilation
process, and created a frontend application in Qt4 that:
1) dynamically loads this library through dlopen()
2) uses dlsym() to find cvm's original main() method
3) starts a new thread and
4) calls the original cvm's main() method

The thing is that the either the Qt4 frontend or the cvm's thread
can clean up and call exit() while the other part is still busy,
causing a segfault. This should not happen while the application
is running, only when you end the application.

Not sure though why this only happens under root.

Davy