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
