Armory crash creating new wallet after entering Passphrase

Armory version 0.96.3 on Linux Lite On a Sony vgn BX660P laptop 2G ram 200Gb internal and 1 TB USB external USB drive
Installs were successful, bitcoin-qt syncs, armory offline runs if I skip creating a wallet.
When I try to create a wallet all goes fine, until I click the Next after entering the Passphrase, then it just dumps me out.
The last few lines of armorylog.txt are
2018-02-02 11:12:35 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:3559 - Using settings file: /home/rick/.armory/ArmorySettings.txt
2018-02-02 11:12:35 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:2061 - loadWalletsAndSettings
2018-02-02 11:12:35 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:2121 - Loading wallets...
2018-02-02 11:12:35 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:2186 - Number of wallets read in: 0
2018-02-02 11:12:35 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:1763 - acquiring process mutex...
2018-02-02 11:12:35 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:1395 - setupUriRegistration
2018-02-02 11:12:35 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:672 - Executing popen: gconftool-2 --get /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/bitcoin/command
2018-02-02 11:12:35 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:672 - Executing popen: xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/bitcoin
2018-02-02 11:12:36 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:566 - Usermode: Advanced
2018-02-02 11:12:36 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:1698 - Changing usermode:
2018-02-02 11:12:36 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:1699 - From: Advanced
2018-02-02 11:12:36 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:1707 - To: Advanced
2018-02-02 11:12:36 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:1836 - startBitcoindIfNecessary
2018-02-02 11:12:36 (WARNING) -- ArmoryQt.py:1842 - Not online, will not start bitcoind
2018-02-02 11:12:36 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:4573 - Dashboard switched to auto-OfflineNoSatoshiNoInternet
2018-02-02 11:13:34 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:1142 - Adding 93 keypress events to the entropy pool
2018-02-02 11:13:34 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:1144 - Adding 1.8 kB bytes of filesystem data to the entropy pool
2018-02-02 11:13:34 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:1146 - Adding 199.3 kB bytes from desktop screenshot to the entropy pool
2018-02-02 11:13:35 (INFO) -- PyBtcWallet.py:885 - ***Creating new deterministic wallet
2018-02-02 11:13:35 (INFO) -- PyBtcWallet.py:891 - (with encryption)
2018-02-02 11:13:35 (INFO) -- PyBtcWallet.py:893 - Target (time,RAM)=(0.250,33554432)