Bug#347946: akregator segfaults at start

[Rémi Denis-Courmont <rdenis-debian-bts1@simphalempin.com>]

Package: akregator
Version: 4:3.5.0-4
Severity: important


Starting akregator, whether from the command line or from the K start
menu either raises a segmentation fault :

akregator: ERROR: Communication problem with akregator, it probably
crashed.

or simply freezes, seemingly for something from DCOP (in that case, we
see an "empty" item in the mini icon widget. In the latter case,
"strace akregator" returns :

write(3, "\1\2\1\0H\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 12) = 12
write(3, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\vDCOPServer\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\25regi"..., 53) =
53
write(3, "\0\0\0\17anonymous-5295\0", 19) = 19
read(3, "\2\3\0\0027\0\0\0", 8)         = 8
read(3, "\317\0\0\0", 4)                = 4
read(3, "\0\0\0\vDCOPServer\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\tQCString\0"..., 55) = 55
write(3, "\1\2\1\0_\0\0\0\317\0\0\0", 12) = 12
write(3, "\0\0\0\17anonymous-5295\0\0\0\0\vDCOPServe"..., 81) = 81
write(3, "\0\0\0\nakregator\0", 14)     = 14
read(3, "\2\3\0\0023\0\0\0", 8)         = 8
read(3, "\317\0\0\0", 4)                = 4
read(3, "\0\0\0\vDCOPServer\0\0\0\0\17anonymous-529"..., 51) = 51
write(3, "\1\2\1\0h\0\0\0\2\0\0\0", 12) = 12
write(3, "\0\0\0\17anonymous-5295\0\0\0\0\nakregator"..., 69) = 69
write(3, "\0\0\0\v/home/remi\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"...,
35) = 35
read(3, "\2\5\0\2%\0\0\0", 8)           = 8
read(3, "\2\0\0\0", 4)                  = 4
read(3, "\0\0\0\nakregator\0\0\0\0\17anonymous-5295"..., 37) = 37
read(3,   <unfinished ...>


Whether it crashes or freezes seems pretty random.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages akregator depends on:
ii  kdelibs4c2a                   4:3.5.0-3  core libraries for all KDE applica
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-11   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.0.2-6  GCC support library
ii  libkdepim1a                   4:3.5.0-4  KDE PIM library
ii  libqt3-mt                     3:3.3.5-3  Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libstdc++6                    4.0.2-6    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

akregator recommends no packages.

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