Problems with KATE

[Kevin]

As requested: gdb output - but useless :(

$ gdb kate
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Reading symbols from kate...Reading symbols from /home/kmg/kate...(no 
debugging symbols found)...done.
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Missing separate debuginfos, use: dnf debuginfo-install 
kate-17.04.1-1.fc26.x86_64
(gdb) r
Starting program: /usr/bin/kate 
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib64/libthread_db.so.1".
[New Thread 0x7fffe5269700 (LWP 15477)]
[New Thread 0x7fffd560d700 (LWP 15478)]
Detaching after fork from child process 16528.
Detaching after fork from child process 16529.

Thread 1 "kate" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007fffc3c92c79 in ?? ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00007fffc3c92c79 in  ()
#1  0x00007fffc3cff510 in  ()
#2  0x0003200000000000 in  ()
#3  0x0000000000000000 in  ()
(gdb) 

On Monday, 23 October 2017 7:44:41 AM AEST Sven Brauch wrote:
> On 22/10/17 02:50, Kevin wrote:
> Can you start kate in gdb ("gdb kate") and get a backtrace when it
> crashes? Maybe that contains a hint about what's happening.