[Scribus] Scribus hangs when creating a new file

[Jean Jordaan]

Hi there

I'm running into the same issue as reported here:
   http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/2004-August/006204.html
and here:
   http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/2003-October/002352.html

-- when creating a new document (empty or from template) Scribus hangs
and endlessly writes 'QFont::setPointSize: Point size <= 0 (0)' to the
terminal.

This is with scribus-1.2.1 on my laptop. The same version on my desktop
works fine. Both machines are Gentoo Linux, and I installed using
http://packages.gentoo.org/ebuilds/?scribus-1.2.1

Is there any info I could give you to help make my laptop play nice?

-- 
Jean Jordaan
http://www.upfrontsystems.co.za