This error occurs under multiple different windows programs, and different versions of wine, including Alpha Centauri, sumotori, and Space Station Manager (predecessor to ShortHike). The only application that has not done this is Rollercoaster Tycoon 2. I don't run applications from the terminal often, but this doesn't seem to occur to any other program. wine.bin(369,0x40858200) malloc: *** error for object 0x41b8d6e0: incorrect checksum for freed object - object was probably modified after being freed. *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug wine: Assertion failed at address 0x000b:0x9b4469c6 (thread 0009), starting debugger...