There is a guide for upgrading from pre-RPM versions of CE here:
The process is not a fully automated one but the howto and scripts included in this directory should help you.
If it is not utterly crucial to preserve the original IDs [and we’re not just talking about entry IDs but also, partner IDs, UI conf IDs, etc], a faster and less error prone approach might be to export all your assets from the original server re-ingest them on the new one using the API.
See the discussion here:
If the searchd binary you currently have includes the debug symbols, you can try to generate a coredump and check the stack trace with GDB to understand why it crushes, I explain how to do that in this thread:
However, since you run a very old version, I cannot provide you with further support unless you upgrade.