kate crashes directly at startup. The only output is KCrash: Application 'kate' crashing... kate --version Qt: 3.3.6 KDE: 3.5.2 Kate: 2.5.2 If I open a file at the same time as opening kate, I get the following in the kde-crash-info window [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread -1235315024 (LWP 6820)] [KCrash handler] #6 0xb7e34010 in KParts::Factory::createPart () from /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkparts.so.2 #7 0xb7eed289 in KateDocManager::createDoc () from /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkateinterfaces.so.0 #8 0xb7eedff9 in KateDocManager::KateDocManager () from /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkateinterfaces.so.0 #9 0xb7edcb4f in KateApp::KateApp () from /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkateinterfaces.so.0 #10 0xb7f67e70 in kdemain () from /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkdeinit_kate.so #11 0x08048782 in ?? () #12 0x00000002 in ?? () #13 0xbf9f6874 in ?? () #14 0x00000000 in ?? () emerge --info tells me Portage 2.1.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17.6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17.6 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 Last Sync: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 06:00:01 +0000 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30 dev-lang/python: 2.2.3-r5, 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -finline-functions -mmmx -m3dnow -msse" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/app-defaults /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -finline-functions -mmmx -m3dnow -msse" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ http://ds.thn.htu.se/linux/gentoo http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/" LINGUAS="" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X Xaw3d acl acpi adns alsa apache2 apm arts atlas avi berkdb bindist bitmap-fonts bonobo cdparanoia cdr cli crypt cscope cups curl dga dlloader doc dri dvd elibc_glibc emboss encode esd ethereal evo f77 fam fastcgi fb flac foomaticdb fortran gcj gd gdbm ggi gif ginac gphoto2 gpm gstreamer guile icq imagemagick imap imlib innodb input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog jabber jack java jpeg junit kde kernel_linux lcms lesstif libg++ libgda libwww mad maildir mbox mcal mikmod mmx motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mpi msn ncurses nls nptl nptlonly odbc ogg oggvorbis opengl oscar oss pam pcre pdflib perl plotutils png ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline real reflection ruby sasl scanner sdl session slang spell spl sse ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev userland_GNU v4l v4l2 video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia video_cards_vesa videos vmf vorbis wxwindows xml xml2 xmms xorg xv zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Problem solved! I just needed to re-emerge kdelibs
