Backtrace, truncated, since it continues like this for literally houndreds of lines: #0 match ( eptr=0x9b3c7c0 "fight against a competitor in any business; ATi 4800 series is phenomenal and now you want Nvidia to release all their business secrets - its not fair to put a company in that mess because there's lik"..., ecode=0x980272a "\fT", mstart=0x9b3bab0 "<UL id=\"p17350349\"><LI class=\"l1\" id=\"c17359707\">Lane, <A href=\"?t=17350349#c17359707\">13 hr 45 min ago</A>, -23/+5<SPAN>2d performance? say what now??</SPAN><UL id=\"p17359707\"><LI class=\"l2\" id=\"c173"..., offset_top=6, md=0xbfb4185c, ims=0, eptrb=0x0, flags=0, rdepth=6690) at pcre_exec.c:405 #1 0xb5d3f7d6 in match ( eptr=0x9b3c7c0 "fight against a competitor in any business; ATi 4800 series is phenomenal and now you want Nvidia to release all their business secrets - its not fair to put a company in that mess because there's lik"..., ecode=0x9802725 "_", mstart=0x9b3bab0 "<UL id=\"p17350349\"><LI class=\"l1\" id=\"c17359707\">Lane, <A href=\"?t=17350349#c17359707\">13 hr 45 min ago</A>, -23/+5<SPAN>2d performance? say what now??</SPAN><UL id=\"p17359707\"><LI class=\"l2\" id=\"c173"..., offset_top=6, md=0xbfb4185c, ims=0, eptrb=0x0, flags=0, rdepth=6689) at pcre_exec.c:690 #2 0xb5d45fe8 in match ( eptr=0x9b3c7c0 "fight against a competitor in any business; ATi 4800 series is phenomenal and now you want Nvidia to release all their business secrets - its not fair to put a company in that mess because there's lik"..., ecode=0x980272f "V", mstart=0x9b3bab0 "<UL id=\"p17350349\"><LI class=\"l1\" id=\"c17359707\">Lane, <A href=\"?t=17350349#c17359707\">13 hr 45 min ago</A>, -23/+5<SPAN>2d performance? say what now??</SPAN><UL id=\"p17359707\"><LI class=\"l2\" id=\"c173"..., offset_top=6, md=0xbfb4185c, ims=0, eptrb=0x0, flags=0, rdepth=6688) at pcre_exec.c:1297 #3 0xb5d3f7d6 in match ( eptr=0x9b3c7bf " fight against a competitor in any business; ATi 4800 series is phenomenal and now you want Nvidia to release all their business secrets - its not fair to put a company in that mess because there's li"..., ecode=0x9802725 "_", mstart=0x9b3bab0 "<UL id=\"p17350349\"><LI class=\"l1\" id=\"c17359707\">Lane, <A href=\"?t=17350349#c17359707\">13 hr 45 min ago</A>, -23/+5<SPAN>2d performance? say what now??</SPAN><UL id=\"p17359707\"><LI class=\"l2\" id=\"c173"..., offset_top=6, md=0xbfb4185c, ims=0, eptrb=0x0, flags=0, rdepth=6687) at pcre_exec.c:690 #4 0xb5d45fe8 in match ( eptr=0x9b3c7bf " fight against a competitor in any business; ATi 4800 series is phenomenal and now you want Nvidia to release all their business secrets - its not fair to put a company in that mess because there's li"..., ecode=0x980272f "V", mstart=0x9b3bab0 "<UL id=\"p17350349\"><LI class=\"l1\" id=\"c17359707\">Lane, <A href=\"?t=17350349#c17359707\">13 hr 45 min ago</A>, -23/+5<SPAN>2d performance? say what now??</SPAN><UL id=\"p17359707\"><LI class=\"l2\" id=\"c173"..., offset_top=6, md=0xbfb4185c, ims=0, eptrb=0x0, flags=0, rdepth=6686) at pcre_exec.c:1297 #5 0xb5d3f7d6 in match ( eptr=0x9b3c7be "t fight against a competitor in any business; ATi 4800 series is phenomenal and now you want Nvidia to release all their business secrets - its not fair to put a company in that mess because there's l"..., ecode=0x9802725 "_", mstart=0x9b3bab0 "<UL id=\"p17350349\"><LI class=\"l1\" id=\"c17359707\">Lane, <A href=\"?t=17350349#c17359707\">13 hr 45 min ago</A>, -23/+5<SPAN>2d performance? say what now??</SPAN><UL id=\"p17359707\"><LI class=\"l2\" id=\"c173"..., offset_top=6, md=0xbfb4185c, ims=0, eptrb=0x0, flags=0, rdepth=6685) at pcre_exec.c:690 #6 0xb5d45fe8 in match ( eptr=0x9b3c7be "t fight against a competitor in any business; ATi 4800 series is phenomenal and now you want Nvidia to release all their business secrets - its not fair to put a company in that mess because there's l"..., ecode=0x980272f "V", mstart=0x9b3bab0 "<UL id=\"p17350349\"><LI class=\"l1\" id=\"c17359707\">Lane, <A href=\"?t=17350349#c17359707\">13 hr 45 min ago</A>, -23/+5<SPAN>2d performance? say what now??</SPAN><UL id=\"p17359707\"><LI class=\"l2\" id=\"c173"..., offset_top=6, md=0xbfb4185c, ims=0, eptrb=0x0, flags=0, rdepth=6684) at pcre_exec.c:1297 #7 0xb5d3f7d6 in match ( eptr=0x9b3c7bd "st fight against a competitor in any business; ATi 4800 series is phenomenal and now you want Nvidia to release all their business secrets - its not fair to put a company in that mess because there's "..., ecode=0x9802725 "_", mstart=0x9b3bab0 "<UL id=\"p17350349\"><LI class=\"l1\" id=\"c17359707\">Lane, <A href=\"?t=17350349#c17359707\">13 hr 45 min ago</A>, -23/+5<SPAN>2d performance? say what now??</SPAN><UL id=\"p17359707\"><LI class=\"l2\" id=\"c173"..., offset_top=6, md=0xbfb4185c, ims=0, eptrb=0x0, flags=0, rdepth=6683) at pcre_exec.c:690
Portage 2.2_rc5 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.3.1, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r0, 2.6.25.8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.25.8-i686-AMD_Sempron-tm-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:45:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 9999 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r3 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.62-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.25-r4 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -mtune=athlon-xp -msse -mmmx -pipe -ggdb3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -mtune=athlon-xp -msse -mmmx -pipe -ggdb3" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks installsources parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.gentoo.no/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en da" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/misc /usr/local/portage/powertop /usr/local/portage/fonts /usr/local/portage/font-rework" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acpi aim alsa authdaemond avahi bash-completion berkdb bzip2 cairo cdr cgi cjk cli cpudetection cracklib crypt css cups curl dbus djbfft djvu dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread evdev fam fastcgi ffmpeg firefox flac fontconfig fortran g15 gadu gif glib glitz gnutls gpm graphviz hal hbci iconv icq icu idea imap isdnlog jabber java javascript jbig jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal lcd lm_sensors logitech-mouse logrotate lzo mad matroska mbox metric midi mikmod mime mmx mmxext mng mono moznopango mp3 mp4 mpeg mplayer msn mudflap musepack ncurses network-cron nls nocd nptl nptlonly offensive ogg openal openexr opengl openmp oscar pam pcre pdf perl php png pop ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline real reflection rle sasl sdl sensord session shorten slang smime sms speex spell spl sse ssl svg sysfs tcpd texteffect theora threads tiff translator truetype unicode usb vcd vorbis wavpack win32codecs wmf wxwindows x264 x86 xanim xcb xface xine xml xmlrpc xorg xscreensaver xv xvid yahoo zlib" ALSA_CARDS="via82xx" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="g15" LINGUAS="en da" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa radeon" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
I am unable to reproduce this with libpcre-7.8 and kde-3.5.10. Perhaps content of page changed or libpcre-7.8 fixed it. Closing regardless.