On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 11:10:59PM -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: > A. F. Cano wrote: > > > #16 0xb43c42ed in _dlerror_run (operate=operate@entry=0xb43c3b80 > > #<dlopen_doit>, args=args@entry=0xbff1cc50) at dlerror.c:163 17 0xb43c3c9e > > #in __dlopen (file=0x818e2da0 > > #"/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/vlc/plugins/gui/libqt4_plugin.so", mode=1) at > > #dlopen.c:87 18 0xa9c26368 in ?? () from > > #/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libvlccore.so.8 > > it's not a Qt or kde bug, but a problem with your vlc install (I'd suggest > you contact your distro for support about it). > > (trying to load a Qt4 plugin into a Qt5 program is causing this crash). Thank you. It was indeed a conflict with vlc (from deb-multimedia) and the Systemsettings5 application (and the shared libs it uses) from Debian. Removing vlc and its dependencies fixed the problem and Systemsettings5 now works without crashing. Augustine