Well, it's very simple.

When I try to trace a scene with no objects at all, POV-Ray runs
through all algorithms and stuff, but just as it tries to open the
render window, it crashes.

I'm using POV-Ray Beta 8, have Windows 98 with 800 MHZ and 340 MB Ram.

Is there no way POV-Ray could simply check if there is anything in
scene, and if there isn't, just traces black background?

By the way, sky_sphere doesn't count as object, strangely.

Here's an example:

camera{location <0,0,-5> look_at <0,0,0>}
light_source{<10,10,-10> rgb 1}
sky_sphere{pigment{gradient y color_map{[0 rgb 1][1 rgb 0]}scale 2
translate -1}}

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