Package: kaiman Version: 0.3.2 (KDE 1.94 >= 20000911) Severity: normal I had thought that this may have been because i have been running XFree86 3.3.6 as per supplied with Suse 6.4 but having bit the bullet and installed XFree86 4.0.1 am still getting exactly the same problems with several programs kmix , xmms, xsetisthome, krabber, and many more as well . Here is a backtrace generated by DrKonqi: 0x412793f9 in __wait4 () from /lib/libc.so.6 #0 0x412793f9 in __wait4 () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x412d6638 in __DTOR_END__ () from /lib/libc.so.6 #2 0x41185cb7 in waitpid () at wrapsyscall.c:186 #3 0x406f3640 in KCrash::defaultCrashHandler () from /opt/kde2/lib/libkdecore.so.3 #4 0x41217998 in __restore () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/sigaction.c:127 #5 0x41121ca1 in tcp_connect () from /opt/kde2/lib/libmcop.so.0 #6 0x41121dec in Arts::TCPConnection::TCPConnection () from /opt/kde2/lib/libmcop.so.0 #7 0x41116b0a in Arts::Dispatcher::connectObjectRemote () from /opt/kde2/lib/libmcop.so.0 #8 0x41003db4 in Arts::SimpleSoundServer_base::_fromReference () from /opt/kde2/lib/libsoundserver_idl.so.0 #9 0x41003b3e in Arts::SimpleSoundServer_base::_fromString () from /opt/kde2/lib/libsoundserver_idl.so.0 #10 0x8059302 in Kaiman::initArts () #11 0x805c055 in Kaiman::playNext () #12 0x805c2ee in Kaiman::play () #13 0x805f60a in KaimanApp::newInstance () #14 0x4069722b in KUniqueApplication::processDelayed () from /opt/kde2/lib/libkdecore.so.3 #15 0x40ab79ae in QObject::activate_signal () from /opt/kde2/lib/libqt.so.2 #16 0x40b03cb7 in QSignal::activate () from /opt/kde2/lib/libqt.so.2 #17 0x40b0be20 in QSingleShotTimer::event () from /opt/kde2/lib/libqt.so.2 #18 0x40a46ae9 in QApplication::notify () from /opt/kde2/lib/libqt.so.2 #19 0x40684e7d in KApplication::notify () from /opt/kde2/lib/libkdecore.so.3 #20 0x40a0e81a in qt_activate_timers () from /opt/kde2/lib/libqt.so.2 #21 0x40a0c5ba in QApplication::processNextEvent () from /opt/kde2/lib/libqt.so.2 #22 0x40a4877f in QApplication::enter_loop () from /opt/kde2/lib/libqt.so.2 #23 0x40a0c2ab in QApplication::exec () from /opt/kde2/lib/libqt.so.2 #24 0x805f960 in main () #25 0x41211a4e in __libc_start_main () at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:93