akregator crashes upon startup

[Wei-Yee Chan]

Binary package hint: akregator

The app crashes everytime I start it up.

I have managed to duplicate the problem by copying the data files in /.kde/share/apps/akregator to another computer. It seems that the files have somehow been corrupted by the app, even though I had shut the app down cleanly before the problem surfaced.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: akregator 4:4.4.8-0ubuntu0.0.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-29.58-generic 2.6.32.28+drm33.13
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-29-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Mar 15 00:59:27 2011
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_HK.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: kdepim

[Wei-Yee Chan (chanweiyee)]

Deleting /.kde/share/apps/akregator solved the crash problem, albeit at the cost of losing data.

[Wei-Yee Chan (chanweiyee)]

I have discovered that the problem is caused by a corrupted .mk4 file. Isolating and removing the offending feed file using a cut and paste approach with a file manager allowed me to solve the crash problem without losing my data.

[Terence Simpson (tsimpson)]

Unfortunately, without the backtrace from the crash, there is nothing we can do to diagnose this issue

[Wei-Yee Chan (chanweiyee)]

Is this what you need?

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268493

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Yes, but this is already being tracked at the upstream bug anyways. It's not a downstream issue.