[scribus] 1.5.0 fails for me.

[Gregory Pittman]

On 03/17/2012 08:35 AM, john Culleton wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 20:25:39 +1100
> "Owen"<rcook at pcug.org.au>  wrote:
>
>>
>>> Just FYI, Scribus 1.5.0 Rev 17382 compiles clean but segment
>>> faults on execution.  I haven't had a workable 1.5.0 in more than
>>> a week.  I tried killing all the files in ~/.scribus but that
>>> doesn't make it work either.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> No problem here on a SUSE.
>>
>> You might want to try removing the directory where Scribus is
>> installed, and  then run make install again.
>>
>>
>>   --
>> Owen
>>
>>
> OK I have that process underway. I don't know enough to do a
> backtrace, since that apparently requires me to put something in
> the source code and among other things I don't know hwere to put
> it.
>
>
here's a mini-tutorial on backtrace:

you need to have gdb on your system.

then in console, type 'gdb /your/path/to/scribus1.50/bin/scribus'
then type 'run'
after the crash, type 'bt' and you get the backtrace

Greg