The last time I tried Scribus on Solaris it crashed at the same point. This was on Solaris 8. FreeType was crashing when trying to read one of the fonts in /usr/openwin/... I modified the font path in xset until it didn’t crash (i.e. take out directories). Turns out that I took out the directory containing the offending point just have Scribus tell me it didn’t have any PS fonts. In effect, I never got Scribus working on Solaris. I remember reading about other people needing to go back to older versions of FreeType. You could try older versions (before v2.1.9). Another thing I didn’t try but you could is to NOT use any of the Openwin fonts but to download a collection that is known to work and see if FreeType can work with that.—Adam