[kdepim-users] KDE-PIM applications all crash with start up

[Hasko Bern]

When I switched from one feed to another in Akregator, the program crashed,
which sadly it has been doing ever more often in the last weeks. As I could
not get it running again, i rebooted my computer.
>From then on I am not able to start any component of the KDE-PIM suite
(Kontact, Kmail, Kwallet, nor Krusader, Basket, Kalarm, Korganizer). They
all crash instantaneously. Some KDE applications work though like Kgpg and
Kate.

I searched the bug website if someone had the same problem (I get the error
message: Ausführbare Datei: kmail PID: 3127 Signal: 7 (Bus error) other
programs are similiar, all show 'Signal: 7'). But not with exactly this
message or the more elaborate crash reports. Frankly I do not understand
very much what is in them.
So I'm thinking about filing a bug report, but since so many programs are
touched, and I guess there is a common cause, I'm not quite sure where to
start, i.e. under which category to post them. Maybe I've overlooked the
category KDE-PIM. Looking at the bug reports for KDE in general, this does
not seem the appropiate section to me.

If someone knows of reports on the same of similiar problems I'd be glad to
hear of them before filing a duplicate.

I can launch the programs in question from the command line if root, but not
as a normal user. Then I receive this output:

pascal at pascal-debian:~$ kmail
KCrash: Application 'kmail' crashing...
<unknown program name>(32582)/: Communication problem with  "kmail" , it
probably crashed.
Error message was:  "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown" : " "The
name org.kde.kmail was not provided by any .service files" "

sock_file=/home/pascal/.kde/socket-pascal-debian/kdeinit4__0

pascal at pascal-debian:~$ akregator
qUncompress: Input data is corrupted
qUncompress: Input data is corrupted
KCrash: Application 'akregator' crashing...
sock_file=/home/pascal/.kde/socket-pascal-debian/kdeinit4__0
<unknown program name>(32615)/: Communication problem with  "akregator" , it
probably crashed.
Error message was:  "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown" : " "The
name org.kde.akregator was not provided by any .service files" "

The only reason for this whole mess I can think of is a recent update of my
Debian Testing 2.6.32-5 Kernel. I have KDE 4.4.1 (I just wanted to check
using Kgpg and Kate, but they crashed when clicking on 'About KDE' in the
menu, but the version should be correct)

This update did not include any changes to any KDE programs, I'm am quite
sure of that, as I always check what apt-get wants to do to my computer
(Things like removing the whole GNOME of KDE-desktop for dependency reasons
are not so funny!)

The reason why I suspect the update to be the culprit, is that since that
point of time, my root-directory is totally full. So no changes can be
written in /, and I guess this is not optimal, but maybe I'm totally wrong
with this. I set my root-directory up with 17G of space which should be more
than enough, shouldn't it? I can still resize it as it is a logical volume
in a LVM and just deleting some files that do not appear as especially
important to me, is probably not the best way forward.

Thanks a lot for any hints and most of all for your patience of reading
through this way too long mail,

Pascal



-- 
Pascal Bernhard
Schwalbacher Strasse 7
12161 Berlin
Germany,
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