I really only get a segmentation fault when I run tuxpaint with no arguments: ***@ubuntu:~$ tuxpaint Segmentation fault Here is some more information about my version of tuxpaint: ***@ubuntu:~$ tuxpaint --verbose-version Tux Paint Version 0.9.20 (2008-08-28) Built with these options: Built for POSIX Using software surface (no USE_HWSURFACE) Using 32bpp video (VIDEO_BPP=32) Prints as PostScript (PRINTMETHOD_PS) Threaded font loader enabled (FORKED_FONTS) Data directory (DATA_PREFIX) = /usr/share/tuxpaint/ Plugin directory (MAGIC_PREFIX) = /usr/lib/tuxpaint/plugins/ Doc directory (DOC_PREFIX) = /usr/share/doc/tuxpaint/ Locale directory (LOCALEDIR) = /usr/share/locale/ Input Method directory (IMDIR) = /usr/share/tuxpaint/im/ System config directory (CONFDIR) = /etc/tuxpaint/ Here is something that I noticed in /var/log/messages the past two times that I ran the program: Jun 27 08:57:02 ubuntu kernel: [ 472.542532] tuxpaint[4100]: segfault at 3f2eaeb7 ip b7cd3dc3 sp b2100134 error 4 in libc-2.9.so[b7c64000+15c000] Jun 27 09:07:07 ubuntu kernel: [ 1077.487446] tuxpaint[4689]: segfault at 3ed4d4dd ip b7b97dc3 sp b1fc4134 error 4 in libc-2.9.so[b7b28000+15c000] ________________________________ From: Caroline Ford