Hi, it seems that in the latest 1.3.9 and the unreleased 1.4.0 versoin from svn, there is also a crash when duplicating a layer. Not sure if this is the same bug, or a new bug with the same symptoms, of course. Anyway, upstream documented it here:
http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=9567 Gr. Matthijs
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