Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
Try opening Kate from a console window and reproducing the steps you
mentioned. It must leave messages at the console when it dies, and these
messages may give you a hint about what is happening.
If that doesn't give any useful results, repeat the trick this time with
strace kate
on the commandline. Strace shows you all the system calls your usermode
process is making, so you can expect a spew at the beginning. The last
calls made before it drops dead is worth examining carefully for File
Not Found or other kinds of error to get a clue.
-Andy