Indeed... verifying on Steam showed that 2 files were corrupt and have been reacquired. I've pulled a copy of that file in question before validating and they are COMPLETELY different (looked at them with a hex editor). Not sure what was going on there, possibly some FS corruption?

$ md5sum /tmp ...

It *just* happened again, exatly the same issue apparently as far as I can tell. Again on Vulcanus, I was just placing down some inserters:

0.000 2024-11-13 19:18:54; Factorio 2.0.15 (build 80108, linux64, steam, space-age)
0.000 Operating system: Linux
0.000 Initializing Steam API.
0.000 ...

After 1100 hrs of Factorio, my first crash (that is likely not hardware related) has happened. I am early game on Vulcanus, not a lot of things going on and it happened out of absolutely nowhere. I'm on Linux x86_64 6.5.0-28-generic #29-Ubuntu with a AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3945WX 12-Cores CPU ...

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Yes I noticed also the different paths in the execution, but I though some racey thing in the Factorio software led to the memory corruption. However, I tried testing using Memtest86+ 5.0.1. Ran for hours, nothing found. I did notice, though, that the CPU ran significantly cooler when running ...

OS: Linux Ubuntu 18.04
Mods: None, completely Vanilla
Game version: 0.17.23

I've started a new save with 0.17 on Linux/x86_64 and have about 120 hours on it now. The base is large, but not excessively large in my opinion. Lately I'm getting a TON of crashes, sometimes litterally every few minutes ...