Reports in Gnucash 1.8.8 cause segmentation fault on a SuSE 9.1 Pro installation

[Randy Burgess]

I'm running a brand-new installation of SuSE 9.1 professional on an 
eMachines T3092; kernel is 2.6.5-7.108-default. I've installed GnuCash 
1.8.8-49 from the SuSE-supplied RPM. I'm using the KDE 3.2 desktop.

GnuCash runs OK except when I try to access anything on the Reports menu 
- in which case it crashes and brings down X with it. Looking in 
/var/log/warn, I find only this:

    Fatal server error: Caught signal 11.  Server aborting

I've checked the hardware using the test script from 
www.bitwizard.nl/sig11, and everything checks out OK, so I don't think 
it's a hardware problem.

I've searched SuSE support site plus done a Google and have come up with 
nothing. My fallback solution is to unsintall the SuSE RPM and go with 
an older version of 1.8.8 I assembled--but although that older version 
ran fine on SuSE 8.2 Pro, it looks like I'll now need to grab a few more 
outdated libraries. Which of course may or may not cause system 
conflicts ...

Anybody have any other suggestions? Any other logs I can look at? This 
seems like a hellishly difficult app to troubleshoot given its many 
dependencies.