I’ve removed the GhostScript font packages (Standard and Other), and I get the same crash. For completeness, here’s the gdb output:

    (gdb) run    Starting program: /usr/local/bin/scribus    warning: Lowest section in /usr/lib/libdl.so.1 is .dynamic at 00000094    warning: Lowest section in /usr/lib/libpthread.so.1 is .dynamic at 00000074    warning: Lowest section in /usr/lib/libintl.so.1 is .dynamic at 00000074

    Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction.    0x007cbee0 in ?? ()    (gdb) bt    #0 0x007cbee0 in ?? ()    #1 0xff2999c8 in FT_Get_Postscript_Name (face=0x7e5590) at ftobjs.c:2458    #2 0x002427ac in SCFonts::AddScalableFonts (this=0x516f80,     path=@0xffbfed80) at scfonts.cpp:421    #3 0x00243584 in SCFonts::GetFonts (this=0x516f80, pf=          {static null = {static null = <same as static member of an already     seen type>, d = 0x4f5f78, static shared_null = 0x4f5f78}, d = 0x7c9758,     static shared_null = 0x4f5f78}) at scfonts.cpp:539    #4 0x00386ad8 in ScribusApp::GetAllFonts (this=0x516c08) at     scribus.cpp:6606    #5 0x00355c44 in ScribusApp::initScribus (this=0x516c08) at scribus.cpp:211    #6 0x00354ae0 in ScribusApp::initGui (this=0x516c08) at scribus.cpp:138    #7 0x0039db00 in mainGui (argc=1, argv=0xffbff20c) at main.cpp:208    #8 0x0039d348 in main (argc=1, argv=0xffbff20c) at main.cpp:126    (gdb)—Rainer