The application initially crashed with a segmentation fault shortly after startup. After a little experimenting I discovered it runs fine with root privileges, the crash only happening when running as user acurite. I remarked out the two lines in aculog.c that give up superuser power and it now runs fine as user acurite. This is a slight security risk, and there's no doubt a better solution, but I'm personally OK with it. Ubuntu 16.04.