log out: crash, log in: thinks its already running

[Alan Jenkins]

Binary package hint: akregator

Akregator is part of my (gnome) session. Most of the time, when I log in, I get a dialog box telling me that akregator already appears to be running, that the metakit backend can't handle this, and asking me whether I want to go ahead with starting it or not. I noticed recently a crash dialog coming up when I log out, which is probably the reason for this (ie it leaves a pid file or similar behind).

I've exams at the moment, sorry about the lack of solid information. However, it would seem like a good idea to handle crashes, if at all possible, by removing the pid file (or whatever it is) - in the pid file case that could be done without relying on any application state which might have become corrupted.

[Stéphane Marguet (stemp)]

Alan, thanks for the bug report.
Are you still experiencing this issue ?

[Philip Paquette (pcpaquette)]

Setting the package to kdepim,
Can you please confirm that you still have this problem?
If yes, could you please try to obtain a backtrace <http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash> and attach the file to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

[Philip Paquette (pcpaquette)]

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.