I have posted this on the Abiword list, but it has been suggested that I post it here as well. I have downloaded and installed AbiWord 1.0.1 from the Sourceforge mirrors. It runs if I am logged in as Root, but if I am logged in as a User, when I try to start AbiWord, it crashes with the error message: Application /usr/share/AbiSuite/bin/AbiWord process 1055 (the number varies) has crashed due to a fatal error. Segmentation fault. When I try to run AbiWord on one desktop, all four of my desktops have the splash screen on them. The splash screens remain until I clear the error message. I have tried installing the SuSE-jeo RPMs, the Gnome and GTK RPMs, and compiling the tar.gz version (with the fonts and spelling RPMs, of course). All give me the same result. The process number varies with the different installations. With all of the downloaded versions, I have tried both upgrading the working version which is supplied with SuSE8 and also uninstalling it and doing a clean install of just the downloads. Can't think of anything else to try! I have regularly updated AbiWord and have not had this problem before. As no one else has mentioned it, I am assuming that it is not a bug but a problem with my installation. What is puzzling is that it runs when in Root. Starting it from a terminal does not give any messages of libraries missing. Finally, I installed the GTK RPMs on Mandrake 8.2, which I have on a spare hard drive. AbiWord ran both as Root and User. If any one can please help, I would be extremely grateful. Many thanks Keith