Some bugs with kate crashes was been solved at las SVN commit in this bug:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=178789
Maybe your problem was solved too. Waiting for this commit comes to ubuntu
updates..
** Bug watch added: KDE Bug Tracking System #178789
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1
** Attachment added: "init_bb.php"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24002932/init_bb.php
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kate (KDE4) crashes then open this file
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/344292
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