Curiosity killed the cat. I got an object on the layout that has a frame sized 1x1pt. I don't know what it is and I could have deleted it because it's not needed. Instead I decided to enlarge the frame to see what it was.
using the properties dialog --> unlink H & W --> set width to 100, set height to 100 --> listen to hard drive churn --> Scribus crashes due to Signal #11. malcolm
