Ah!! Sorry for the false alarm.  I had an old svn version of rviz buried 
in a folder that got moved into my ros environment.  It was trying to 
run that, which hasn't been recompiled in a while.

On 07/12/2010 11:14 AM, Patrick Beeson wrote:
> Wit the most recent version of rviz binaries for Lucid 64, rviz bombs
> out immediately at runtime with a 'corrupted double-linked list' error.
> I remove ~/.rviz to make sure it wasn't due to any particular message
> stream, but it simply won't start. Haven't had these issues in a long
> time, but the newest binary seems bad.