Kmail crashes when typing a recipient email

Markus Feilner mfeilner at feilner-it.net
Sun Oct 19 07:49:40 BST 2025


Have u tried deactivating adressbook sources and with a clean akonadi cache? 
With a fresh user? 


Am Samstag, 18. Oktober 2025, 23:17:24 Osteuropäische Sommerzeit schrieb 
Bennett Piater:
> On Saturday, October 18, 2025 5:39:47 PM Central European Summer Time Ingo
> 
> Klöcker wrote:
> > Did you try running it with gdb to get a backtrace?
> > 
> > $ gdb kmail
> > [some output of gdb]
> > (gdb) run
> > [KMail starts; make it crash]
> > (gdb) bt -full
> > [gdb should print a backtrace]
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Ingo
> 
> That doesn't find anything at all:
> 
> (gdb) bt -full
> No stack.
> 
> The only thing I can deduce is that it must have something to do with
> drawing the suggested recipients. It only occurs when I type the third
> character, and only if that matches existing contacts - I can type random
> strings without issue.
> This would also match the wayland error I get (inlined from the bug report):
> 
> qt.qpa.wayland.textinput: virtual void
> QtWaylandClient::QWaylandTextInputv3::disableSurface(wl_surface*) Try to
> disable surface 0x62e32b0fb590 with focusing surface 0x62e32a255420
> zxdg_exporter_v2#75: error 0: surface must be an xdg_toplevel
> 
> Odd. I have never seen a cpp program exit so hard without at least producing
> a coredump.
> 
> Cheers (und Liebe Grüße!),
> Bennett
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