[flukus]

That sort of magic isn't right and if you don't find the source then you'll probably end up with more and more weird bugs down the line, to the point that nothing will work and you won't know why.

My first suggestion would be to familiarize yourself with valgrind to make sure that you aren't accessing memory that you shouldn't be. Next would be writing tests so you can isolate problems like this.

When you've got 58 different systems interacting you'll occasionally come across some weird problems that you can't replicate, but they should be few and far between.