NSPluginScan Crashes when KDE 3.5 is loaded

[bobp]

Version: Kubuntu Karmic / Ubuntu 9.10. KDE 4 installed by default. KDE 3.5 also installed by following these instructions:

https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/Kde3/Karmic

The logon is performed via the KDE logon manager, and if KDE 3.5 is selected, the KDE Crash Handler reports the following error as the desktop is loaded:

"The application nspluginscan (nspluginscan) crashed and caused the signal 11 (SIGSEGV)."

Backtrace information:
/* snip */
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[KCrash handler]
#6 0x00cbb056 in memcpy () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#7 0xbf96d58c in ?? ()
#8 0x08c5df4e in QString::fromUtf8(char const*, int) ()
   from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#9 0x011070bc in KLocale::translate_priv(char const*, char const*, char const**, int*) const () from /opt/kde3/lib/libkdecore.so.4
#10 0x01108bb4 in KLocale::translate(char const*) const ()
   from /opt/kde3/lib/libkdecore.so.4
#11 0x010d0029 in i18n(char const*) () from /opt/kde3/lib/libkdecore.so.4
#12 0x0804c001 in tryCheck(int, QString const&) ()
#13 0x0804d8bd in scanDirectory(QString, QStringList&, QTextStream&) ()
#14 0x0804f1be in main ()
/* unsnip */

~$ apt-cache policy nspluginscan
W: Unable to locate package nspluginscan

[bobp (custom-basses)]

KDE 3.5 installation instructions followed:

http://apt.pearsoncomputing.net/install.html

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Please report all KDE3 remix bugs to the project's bugtracker: http://bugs.pearsoncomputing.net/
Thanks.