[ale] Quake2 catches Sig 11 and blows out and leaves the console messed up?

[nomad at orci.com (Nomad the Wanderer)]

Well,
  Read the subject.  I'm happily playing Quake2, 3.19a when all of a sudden
it reports it caught sig 11 and dumps me back to the prompt.  From this 
point on my console/keyboard is hosed.  Pressing "r" gives me ^T and 
alot of other junk.  Very little is readable.  

  First,
    Anyone know how to keep this from happening?

  Second,
    Anyone know if it's possible to fix my console after it gets trashed?

Robert

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FYI:
 perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'