> > 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