[Scribus] Re: Scribus crashing after re-install

[greg]

Thanks Peter. I'll try the Google road and see what I can find. Like I
say, it worked fine on my previous installation of Mdk 10.0, ,but it was
heavily patched, and the fresh install only has the preliminary patch
work on it. Thanks for your help.
Greg
On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 02:22, Deb and Peter Zweck wrote:
> > Subject:
> > [Scribus] Scribus crashing after re-install
> > From:
> > greg <bettyandgreg at ns.sympatico.ca>
> > Date:
> > Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:33:34 -0400
> > To:
> > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de
> >
> > To:
> > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de
> >
> >
> >I recently had to replace my hard drive due to mechanical failure. I had
> >Scribus working fine (version 1.2.1 CVS ) on my previous system,  but
> >when I installed this time I used 1.2.1 (I couldn't use the CVS for some
> >unknown reason). 
> >Here's the problem: When I create a text frame and enter the text it's
> >fine. However, if I try to modify the size of the text, the minute I
> >click on the properties window to do so, Scribus crashes without
> >warning. Any ideas on what could be going wrong?
> >
> >I am running Mandrake 10.0 Official with KDE 3.2. Kernel is 2.6 and I
> >have 256MB RAM and lots of hard drive space.  Any help appreciated.
> >
> >Greg
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Greg,
> 
> I had this same problem with Scribus on Mandrake 10.0. It is a bug in 
> one of the Mandrake libraries (or something) causing the problem, not 
> Scribus. Unfortunately this was some months ago and I have since 
> installed 10.1, so I can't remember which library it was. I solved it by 
> updating the rpm, after which Scribus worked fine. Sorry I can't be more 
> specific but hopefully that will put you on the right track. I found the 
> solution by doing a google search...hope that helps.
> 
> Peter
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