This one bugged me also some time ... . Are you maybe using locale.purge with the "--path-exclude" option ?
The parsing of files as config-files from the cwd (in case of kdm "/") is somewhere happening in libkdecore5. And it seems to have something to do with missing locale files of the the kde-packages. A normal (intact) installation doesn't do that. One can reproduce/trigger this as well easily using "kde4-config". It shows the same behaviour, when launched from "/". A gdb backtrace reveals then a code- path in relation with locale processing. --- cd / gdb --args kde4-config --help run #> Ctrl-c when it doing it's logging excess. backtrace --- The following fixed it then (finally!) for me: Deactivating the "--path-exclude" of locale-purge and then reinstalling all locale-related packages: --- rm /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/50localepurge dpkg-reconfigure localepurge #> Disable the "Use dpkg --path-exclude" option apt-get install --reinstall $(dpkg -l |grep "kde.*all" |cut -d ' ' -f 3) locales util-linux-locales --- BR, Oliver -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
