Is there anything in your logs after you experience the segfault (see launchpad bug #377226 - https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/377226)?
Yes, syslog reports:
May 17 00:44:18 aspirex1700 kernel: [433338.451566] python[10843] segfault
at 530010 ip 000000000045dccc sp 00007fff2c00c498 err
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