Hi. I had the exact same issues... I installed CVS versions a couple of times and bango, hangs and freezing were the normal behaviour. My solution was to backup my /usr/local/lib/scribus/profiles dir and then delete the /usr/local/lib/scribus dir completely.
Next I ran an ldconfig -X as root. I then downloaded the 1.1.4 version, configured, compiled and installed it. I copied back my profiles dir, deleted my ~user/.scribus dir and relaunched the 1.1.4. I'm happy to say that I have no problems at all now. Even better, I have the benefit a larger group of colours to choose from. Everything's much better now. One thing though with the CVS version 1.1.5 - I think it was from the 10th or 11th of January - when I opened a doc I had created before, the fonts in the story editor kept replicating... I couldn't get rid of them at all; they just kept growingback like some sort of weird fungus. This was the straw that made me roll back to the 1.1.4 series. Hope this helps. Regards, -james b, IT renegade, Brevity Networks "There is nothing like dream to create the future. - Victor Hugo
