I am using 2.0, but I have definitely had the issue previously with 2.0. At least, I have had
an issue which involved unexplained crashes during the construction of sf::Text using an sf::Font object and during destruction of such objects too, which persisted even without the default font. Linking statically fixed it for me then.
Maybe this was in fact a separate bug and it has now been fixed?
using SFML1.6
So the infamous default font issue is not present in 2.0? How long ago was it fixed?