On an up-to-date Arch Linux system, using the Mate DE, Krita recently stopped working. It worked perfectly last week. Now when I try to launch Krita I get the message Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Journalctl tells me:

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Process 965 (krita) of user 1000 dumped core.
                                             
                                             Stack trace of thread 965:
                                             #0  0x000055862ce7d064 main (krita + 0x8fa064)
                                             #1  0x00007f991cfef153 __libc_start_main (libc.so.6 + 0x27153)
                                             #2  0x000055862ce7de1e _start (krita + 0x8fae1e)


Maybe it's not a Krita problem, in which case I will ask about it on the Arch forums, but I thought I'd start here because I only get this error with Krita.

Probably not a krita problem, no. Arch is infamous for pushing updates to libraries without rebuilding all dependent applications, especially when things like boost get updated. The backtrace isn't useful in this case, it's not giving any information.

Thanks for your quick reply! I will ask on the Arch forums.

It turns out it was neither Krita's nor Arch's fault, it was mine. My locale somehow got misconfigured and that caused the segfault. Reconfiguring my locale solved the issue.