Hi, Kate crashes on exit due to weird (?) unloading behaviour. I can see that qt_call_post_routines() is already executed and KServiceTypeFactory is destroyed. Later QObjectCleanupHandler/KPluginFactory is destroyed and katepart lib gets unloaded. During the unload, KatePartPluginManager dtor is executed which tries to save it's config. --> KServiceTypeFactory::self() creates a new KServiceTypeFactory with all it's dependencies. One of the dependencies tries to create a dbus connection which crashes on windows. Is this unloading behaviour intended or windows specific? Christian