This bug is has been pushed upstream from an ubuntu bug located at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/zsnes/+bug/346155. I will copy the body of the bug, there are debugging attachments that may come of assistance that are located in the Ubuntu bug report. If you need me to I will try to upload them.
Body:
Binary package hint: zsnes
It's not exactly like #250425 (i.e. no glibc buffer overflow detection) but similar:
pkern@asterix:~$ zsnes
ZSNES v1.51, (c) 1997-2007, ZSNES Team
Be sure to check http://www.zsnes.com/ for the latest version.
ZSNES is written by the ZSNES Team (See AUTHORS.TXT)
ZSNES comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software,
and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions;
please read 'LICENSE.TXT' thoroughly before doing so.
Use ZSNES -? for command line definitions.
Starting Mouse detection.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event8. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event7. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event6. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event5. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event2. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event4. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event3. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event0. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event1. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
ManyMouse: 0 mice detected.
Segmentation fault
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/zsnes
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: zsnes 1.510-2.1ubuntu1.1
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: zsnes
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-13-generic x86_64
Please see this thread: http://board.zsnes.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=12339