maybe the sample is too short, here it works as expected:
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robert@bob:~/Audio/lame-20050314> ./frontend/lame --preset fast standard -Y ~/crash.wav x.mp3
LAME version 3.97 (alpha 9, Mar 14 2005 21:57:58) (http://www.mp3dev.org/)
warning: alpha versions should be used for testing only
CPU features: MMX (ASM used), 3DNow! (ASM used), SSE
Using polyphase lowpass filter, transition band: 18671 Hz - 19205 Hz
Encoding /home/robert/crash.wav to x.mp3
Encoding as 44.1 kHz VBR(q=2) single-ch MPEG-1 Layer III (ca. 7.3x) qval=3
Frame | CPU time/estim | REAL time/estim | play/CPU | ETA
10/10 (100%)| 0:00/ 0:00| 0:00/ 0:00| 26.122x| 0:00
32 [ 1] **************************************************************
40 [ 0]
48 [ 0]
56 [ 3] ****************************************************************************************************
**************************************************************************************
64 [ 2] ****************************************************************************************************
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80 [ 2] ****************************************************************************************************
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96 [ 0]
112 [ 0]
128 [ 0]
160 [ 0]
192 [ 0]
224 [ 2] ****************************************************************************************************
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256 [ 0]
320 [ 0]
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kbps mono % long switch short %
93.6 100.0 70.0 20.0 10.0
Writing LAME Tag...done
ReplayGain: +17.9dB
edit: even though it does not crash for me, there is indeed something wrong in a9.