I've tried it, but hard to say if that fixed it.
I've delet the chat.xml file, and run the new binary, and it didn't frooze (tried it for 15 minutes).

But when I tried the old one, it didn't froze anymore... seams like the chat.xml was important for the bug to append...

Will do some more test.

By the way, I get the same error with GDB as everyone else.

And It's not a shadercache issue. I've just install the game under 0.5.6 and it worked like a charm. A little "buggy" at first, but not a lot. With 0.5.7, it keep jammin and it never recover, well I've never waited more than 10 minutes... but I don't think it's a cache problem if I have to wait 10 minutes.

Same here, on Ubuntu 10.10. The game freeze immidiatly after loading, or it can take up to 1 minute. I've switch the graphics to minimum, closed the chat window, nothing help.

Well to be exact, only the refresh seams to be stoping, because the process still change between 90-100% of the CPU. I've tried to move after it crash (to see if it send commands), but it doesn't.

I've checked error.txt, but the errors occurs when I load the application, not when it crash.
Here's the result of error.txt.

Tue Jun  7 23:54:01 2011, <src/common/sound/system.cpp:37 Initialize SEVERE>
Tue Jun  7 23:54:01 2011, Failed to locate Sound renderer!
Tue Jun  7 23:54:26 2011, <src/client/psclientdr.cpp:268 HandleStatsUpdate SEVERE>
Tue Jun  7 23:54:26 2011, Stat request failed because CelClient not ready for EID:30252
Tue Jun  7 23:54:29 2011, <src/client/psclientdr.cpp:268 HandleStatsUpdate SEVERE>
Tue Jun  7 23:54:29 2011, Stat request failed because CelClient not ready for EID:30252
Tue Jun  7 23:54:30 2011, <src/common/paws/pawstree.cpp:607 Load SEVERE>
Tue Jun  7 23:54:30 2011, <widget> tag not found
Tue Jun  7 23:54:30 2011, <src/common/paws/pawswidget.cpp:1006 FindWidget SEVERE>
Tue Jun  7 23:54:30 2011, Could not locate widget ID=1008 in Chat Tabs
Tue Jun  7 23:54:30 2011, <src/client/psclientdr.cpp:223 HandleDeadReckon SEVERE>
Tue Jun  7 23:54:30 2011, Got DR message for unknown entity EID:10295.
Tue Jun  7 23:54:30 2011, <src/client/psclientdr.cpp:223 HandleDeadReckon SEVERE>
Tue Jun  7 23:54:30 2011, Got DR message for unknown entity EID:10296.
Tue Jun  7 23:54:30 2011, <src/client/psclientdr.cpp:223 HandleDeadReckon SEVERE>
Tue Jun  7 23:54:30 2011, Got DR message for unknown entity EID:10297.
Tue Jun  7 23:54:30 2011, <src/client/psclientdr.cpp:223 HandleDeadReckon SEVERE>
Tue Jun  7 23:54:30 2011, Got DR message for unknown entity EID:10253.
Tue Jun  7 23:54:30 2011, <src/client/psclientdr.cpp:223 HandleDeadReckon SEVERE>
Tue Jun  7 23:54:30 2011, Got DR message for unknown entity EID:10304.
Tue Jun  7 23:54:30 2011, <src/client/psclientdr.cpp:223 HandleDeadReckon SEVERE>
Tue Jun  7 23:54:30 2011, Got DR message for unknown entity EID:10005.
Tue Jun  7 23:54:30 2011, <src/common/paws/pawsimagedrawable.cpp:69 PreparePixmap SEVERE>
Tue Jun  7 23:54:30 2011, Could not open image: >/planeshift/materials/blade_delta_redhot_icon.dds<
Tue Jun  7 23:54:30 2011, <src/common/paws/pawsimagedrawable.cpp:69 PreparePixmap SEVERE>
Tue Jun  7 23:54:30 2011, Could not open image: >/planeshift/materials/blade_delta_redhot_icon.dds<
Tue Jun  7 23:54:30 2011, <src/client/psclientdr.cpp:223 HandleDeadReckon SEVERE>
Tue Jun  7 23:54:30 2011, Got DR message for unknown entity EID:10301.
Tue Jun  7 23:54:30 2011, <src/client/psclientdr.cpp:223 HandleDeadReckon SEVERE>
Tue Jun  7 23:54:30 2011, Got DR message for unknown entity EID:10025.
Tue Jun  7 23:54:30 2011, <src/client/psclientdr.cpp:223 HandleDeadReckon SEVERE>
Tue Jun  7 23:54:30 2011, Got DR message for unknown entity EID:10294.
Tue Jun  7 23:54:30 2011, <src/client/psclientdr.cpp:223 HandleDeadReckon SEVERE>
Tue Jun  7 23:54:30 2011, Got DR message for unknown entity EID:10302.
Tue Jun  7 23:54:30 2011, <src/client/psclientdr.cpp:223 HandleDeadReckon SEVERE>
Tue Jun  7 23:54:30 2011, Got DR message for unknown entity EID:10303.