Hi, I wasn't able to reproduce your crash with kbarcode 2.0.5 or 2.0.6. The crash occurs during rules.xml parsing.
do you have: 1) /usr/share/libpostscriptbarcode/rules.xml 2) /usr/share/apps/kbarcode/rules.xml You must have only the 2nd file (/usr/share/apps/kbarcode/rules.xml). Could you try to remove it and reinstall kbarcode (aptitude reinstall kbarcode) ? cheers, Fathi