Comment 7 for bug 278871

"However whenever I try to load akregator the cursor just bounces and akregator shows up in the taskbar for a few seconds and then it goes away and nothing happens."

This sounds like a different bug to the original crash. It sounds a lot like bug 270799. Do you use archiving on any of your feeds? If so I think that might be the cause of the new problem. Could you paste the output of the command 'sudo apt-cache policy akregator' This should be fixed in version 4.1.2-0ubuntu2.

In the short term the work around as described in 270799 is to try removing the file ~/.kde/share/apps/akregator/Archive