Event tables are inserted into one linked list and are initialize at statup - the same event table may be inserted twice (eg: when the same class-name is used twice in two different shared-libraries/executable) and this will create an endless loop on the initialization of the event tables

The release of Ubuntu
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$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10

$ uname -a
Linux gartas-laptop2 2.6.35-27-generic-pae #48-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 22 21:46:58 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux

The version of the package you are using
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$ apt-cache policy libwxbase2.8-0
libwxbase2.8-0:
  Installed: 2.8.11.0-0ubuntu4.1
  Candidate: 2.8.11.0-0ubuntu4.1
  Version table:
 *** 2.8.11.0-0ubuntu4.1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.8.11.0-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/universe i386 Packages

What you expected to happen:
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The wxwidgets should check for duplicate insertion into the event table and flag a duplicate insert of the same class as an erro

What happened instead:
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The second insert (of the same table) did succeed and create a cycle within the linked list.
On initialization, the initialization of the linked list entered an infinite loop