kmail crashes (SIGABRT) with unexpected Quote indicator

[Kevin Hunter]

Binary package hint: kdepim

Upstream bug report: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174268
Reporting here, so it's in Kubuntu's consciousness.

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Version: 1.10.1 (using KDE 4.1.2)
OS: Linux
Installed from: Ubuntu Packages

Basically the summary. Try this as input for the quote indicator (KMail → Settings → Configure KMail → Composer → Standard Template → (bottom) Quote indicator):

'>%' (note lack of trailing underscore)

Now try to reply to a message. Bam, signal 6 (SIGABRT), and the "friendly" application-has-crashed dialog pops up. :-(

For reference, I'm on AMD64 version of Kubuntu 8.10, with basically a virgin install.

A quick question on #kde suggest that this crashes on current SVN in 32bit x86 architecture as well.

[Richard Birnie (rbirnie-deactivatedaccount)]

Thanks for keeping us in the loop on this. The upstream bug is marked as fixed a while ago. It certainly doesn't crash on my system with KDE 4.2rc1 packages installed. Closing as fix released