kile crashes at startup and has no debug symbols

Question

kile has started crashing every time at startup. The KDE crash handler comes up but complains there are no debug symbols. There appears to be no -dbg package for kile.

I ran it with gdb and this is what I get.

(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/kile 
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
[New Thread 0x7fffe2609700 (LWP 19388)]
[New Thread 0x7fffe1e08700 (LWP 19389)]
[New Thread 0x7fffd98e9700 (LWP 19390)]
[New Thread 0x7fffd90e8700 (LWP 19391)]
[New Thread 0x7fffd88e7700 (LWP 19392)]
[Thread 0x7fffd88e7700 (LWP 19392) exited]
[New Thread 0x7fffd88e7700 (LWP 19394)]
Object::connect: No such signal org::freedesktop::UPower::DeviceAdded(QDBusObjectPath)
Object::connect: No such signal org::freedesktop::UPower::DeviceRemoved(QDBusObjectPath)
kile(19381)/kdecore (KLibrary) findLibraryInternal: plugins should not have a 'lib' prefix: "libkonsolepart.so"
[New Thread 0x7fffc40ef700 (LWP 19396)]
[New Thread 0x7fffc2db1700 (LWP 19412)]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007ffff204ebe6 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtScript.so.4

What can I do?

Answer 1

My problem is similar, but not the same.

After start of Kile, I typed a letter in the editor (last edited file opened), and the application crashed immediately. If instead of typing a letter, I opened a new file and started typing in it, Kile is OK, but when I come back to the older file, again, after typing a letter it crashes.

I did not search for any details in reports and can't repeat the problem now.

Possible solutions: I think once I invoked the PDFLaTeX or LaTeX compilation as the first step, and after they had finished, the editing worked. Another time, that solution did not help, but running sudo kile or kile from CLI removed the problem. I do not understand why, but it helped.