Bug#237924: kdeprint: Print dialog and kprinter crash silently

[Dominique Devriese <dominique.devriese@student.kuleuven.ac.be>]

Peter Clark writes:

> Package: kdeprint Version: 4:3.2.1-1 Severity: grave Tags: sid
> Justification: renders package unusable

> Whenever I try to print something, or bring up kprinter from the
> command line, the window appears for a couple of seconds, and then
> closes, without any error messages (occasionally I get an error
> saying "Alarm clock". but I have no idea what that's from). I have
> tried deleting ~/.kde/share/config/kprinterrc, but that doesn't
> solve anything either.

A SIGALRM most of the time means that the app crashed so badly, that
it was not able to launch the kdebugdialog.

Can you try the suggestions from 
http://www.kde-debian.org/~domi/debugging-kde-crash.html 
?

cheers
domi