Hi!
  I did as You said and here is the bt. It crashes at libxml2, which is 2.3.5
totally unmodified in my case. I looked at the source but immediately got lost.
Is it enough to help ?
                                     With regards, Pavel Troller

#0  0x40c6f980 in strcpy () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1  0x40e68b2c in __DTOR_END__ () from /opt/kde/lib/kde2/kio_help.so
#2  0x40ec0c1e in xmlXPathCompOpEval (ctxt=0x833b118, op=0x833b1a0) at xpath.c:7021
#3  0x40ec110e in xmlXPathCompOpEval (ctxt=0x833b118, op=0x833b1c0) at xpath.c:7206
#4  0x40ec13cb in xmlXPathRunEval (ctxt=0x833b118) at xpath.c:7315
#5  0x40ec16a4 in xmlXPathCompiledEval (comp=0x833b148, ctx=0x83182c8) at xpath.c:7445
#6  0x40e48bca in xsltEvalVariable (ctxt=0x86105d8, elem=0x80887c8) at variables.c:265
#7  0x40e48e99 in xsltEvalGlobalVariables (ctxt=0x86105d8) at variables.c:356
#8  0x40e57ef4 in xsltApplyStylesheet (style=0x805fd28, doc=0x8312638, params=0xbfffdcf4) at transform.c:2538
#9  0x40e3eb44 in transform (pat=@0xbffff164, tss=@0xbffff16c) at xslt.cpp:94
#10 0x40e3dd76 in HelpProtocol::get (this=0xbffff370, url=@0xbffff1e0) at kio_help.cpp:236
#11 0x40229c35 in KIO::SlaveBase::dispatch (this=0xbffff370, command=67, data=@0xbffff2a4) at slavebase.cpp:723
#12 0x40226e0e in KIO::SlaveBase::dispatchLoop (this=0xbffff370) at slavebase.cpp:187
#13 0x40e3e426 in kdemain (argc=4, argv=0x8052cf8) at main.cpp:46
#14 0x804b709 in launch (argc=4, _name=0x805454c "kio_help", args=0x80545c2 "pt\021", cwd=0x0, envc=0, envs=0x0, tty=0x0)
    at kinit.cpp:326
#15 0x804c487 in handle_launcher_request (sock=6) at kinit.cpp:735
#16 0x804cc51 in handle_requests (waitForPid=0) at kinit.cpp:896
#17 0x804da06 in main (argc=2, argv=0xbffff87c, envp=0xbffff888) at kinit.cpp:1183
#18 0x40c32781 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6

 
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