Hi,
This happens on a FreeBSD 4.5 PC with current LyX 1.3.0cvs. Simply open the preferences dialog and LyX collapses. Gdb backtrace: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x0 in ?? () (gdb) bt #0 0x0 in ?? () #1 0x827a812 in FeedbackController::MessageCB (this=0x8542cfc, ob=0x863eb00, event=4) at FeedbackController.C:52 #2 0x827a9bd in FeedbackController::PrehandlerCB (this=0x8542cfc, ob=0x863eb00, event=4, key=0) at FeedbackController.C:83 #3 0x8376bfe in C_PrehandlerCB (ob=0x863eb00, event=4, key=0) at FormBaseDeprecated.C:314 #4 0x2855e4e0 in fl_handle_it () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libforms.so.0.88 #5 0x2855e5a5 in fl_handle_object () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libforms.so.0.88 #6 0x2855136a in fl_handle_form () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libforms.so.0.88 #7 0x28551bcb in do_interaction_step () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libforms.so.0.88 #8 0x2855224a in fl_treat_interaction_events () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libforms.so.0.88 #9 0x28552284 in fl_check_forms () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libforms.so.0.88 #10 0x8314591 in lyx_gui::start (batch=@0xbfbffa4c, files=0xbfbff8b4) at lyx_gui.C:281 #11 0x80ff74e in LyX::LyX (this=0xbfbffa48, argc=@0xbfbffa78, argv=0xbfbffac4) at ../src/lyx_main.C:145 #12 0x814a982 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbfbffac4) at ../src/main.C:31 #13 0x8050a3d in _start () (gdb) Regards, Rob. LyX version info: LyX 1.3.0cvs of Fri, May 3, 2002 Built on Jun 14 2002, 14:12:18 Configuration Host type: Special build flags: warnings assertions C Compiler: gcc C Compiler flags: -g -O2 C++ Compiler: g++ (2.95.3) C++ Compiler flags: -g -O -W -Wall Linker flags: Frontend: xforms libXpm version: 4.11 libforms version: 0.88.1 LyX binary dir: /opt/bin LyX files dir: /opt/share/lyx