I went back through the list of KDE programs in Synaptic and installed all the debug packages that I thought might be useful. Then I tried this again, and got a (hopefully) more useful output.
** Attachment added: "kile.kcrash" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/29202219/kile.kcrash -- Kile crashes when running latex https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/400778 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to kile in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs