> > I gave that a go. gdb reported that kmail exited
> normally. With some trial
> > and error testing, I copied /usr/bin/kmail and
> /usr/lib/libkmailprivate.so
> > from my Slackware 12.2 package and then the problem
> disappeared. At this
> > point I can only guess that something in the kmail
> composer code does not
> > compile correctly and instead causes the entire app to
> close rather than
> > just the composer window.
> >
> > Darrell
> >
> 
> You may need to try something like this:
> gdb --arg kmail --nofork
> 
> kmail is just a kdeinit executable that will normally exit
> as soon as the
> GUI is loaded unless forced not to.

Tim, thanks for the help!

With your suggestion I received something meaningful:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0xb6491dc3 in DCOPObject::~DCOPObject() () from /usr/lib/libDCOP.so.4

libDCOP.so.4 is a sym link to libDCOP.so.4.2.0, which is installed by the kdelibs package.

What do I try next?

Darrell