kdenlive's upstream maintainer, Jean-Baptiste Mardelle wrote that he pushed a fix into branch 'Applications/17.12'[1].
That's the good news. The bad news? I tested debian's version 17.12.1-1 and it was still broken. I worked around it again by changing /usr/share/kdenlive/export/profiles.xml from acodec=vorbis to acodec=libvorbis So, Kingsley [1] Changing "acodec=vorbis" to "acodec=libvorbis" fixes a SIGSEGV https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388503 -- Time is the fire in which we all burn.