Re: Akregator crashes every time I close Kontact

[Arnout Boelens <a.m.p.boelens@gmail.com>]

On Saturday, June 02, 2012 07:12:46 Diederik de Haas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using KDE from sid/experimental/experimental-snapshots and since some
> time Kontact crashes every time I close it. What seems to be relevant here
> is that I have the KMail and Akregator icon in the system tray. When I
> start Kontact and it only shows the KMail icon, the crash doesn't seem to
> happen (at least not so often).

I had the same issue and already filed a bug report:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=675498

A similar bug is reported at bugs.kde.org:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=193780

Also a patch is provided there, but I did not try it yet.

Cheers,

Arnout

> When a crash occurs, you'll get a crash dialog and on the developer tab
> you'll get a stacktrace and an indication (in the form of stars) how good
> the stacktrace likely is. I only got 1 star with those crashes, so I
> installed the following dbg packages:
> kdepim-dbg, kdepim-runtime-dbg and kdepimlibs-dbg from
> experimental-snapshots
> 
> Reloading the crash info and/or starting Kontact again and then closing it,
> produced 3 stars, so it should be sufficient. Crash report attached.
> If the crash report doesn't contain enough info, let me know which dbg pkgs
> I need to install in addition to the ones I have installed.
> 
> Regards,
>   Diederik