> Do you by any chance have the fonts 'pala*.ttf' somewhere in your > Xft directories? If so, kill them. They crash every other Freetype > version. Please tell me if that was it. No such luck, unfortunately. I already removed the *pala* fonts earlier.. :) But after digging some log files, I found quite a close match to the problem from KDE's bug tracking, so I guess this is not a Debian package error: http://bugs.kde.org/db/31/31265.html - Jarno