Bug#447102: kbabel: Crashes when opening *any* PO file

[Ana Guerrero <ana@debian.org>]

Hi Christian,


On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 07:44:14AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Package: kbabel
> Version: 4:3.5.8-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> It's pretty likely that this is realted to various changes in KDE stuff.
> 
> I'm currently running an up-to-date unstable system, which had a big update
> as of yesterday (requiring a restart of my KDE session to get things working
> back).
> 
> Since then (and only since then), KDE is no longer working:
> 
> bubulle@mykerinos:~/src/debian/iso-codes/iso-codes> kbabel iso_3166/fr.po
> ERROR: Communication problem with kbabel, it probably crashed.
> 
> The splash screen indeed briefly appears then vanishes.
> 
> I suspect some library compatibility problem.
>

There are little changes in the way kde is started now. can you check you have
updated ksmserver (3.5.8) and you have installed start_kdeinit_wrapper and
star_kdeinit ? (both under /usr/bin)

I think you might be hit by #446970.

Ana