Version: 1.9.1 (using KDE KDE 3.5.0) Installed from: SuSE RPMs OS: Linux clicking on address of sent mail and selecting add to address book causes kmail to quit, including kicker applet
Do you get a backtrace? If so, paste it here. The crash doesn't occur here, so you'll need to find some way of providing more details to help the developers: Does the same crash happen with a newly-created user? This will tell you whether it's a problem of your user's config files. Do all addresses cause the crash? Does selecting an address from any other folder cause a crash? Any other questions like that which you can answer can provide useful data points for the developers
Any luck finding the answers to the questions in comment #1?
it crashes on gentoo as well, kde/kmail 3.5.2. previous versions also crashed.
Using KMail 1.9.1 for Mardriva I experience the same problem. When I click on an address in an open email to add it to the address book, the entire KMail and Kontact pogram crashes. I get no back trace, unfortunately. Frequently, when programs crash, Konqueror reports a back trace on why. In this case, no crash alert opens, and therefore it is not possible to obtain a back trace report. This is an extremely annoying bug, although it is not as bad as in the previous version, which crashed all together whenever I attempted to switch from mail to contacts, by clicking on the contacts icon in the side panel containing summary etc...
The developers will need a backtrace to be able to investigate this. Can you try running KMail in gdb. When it crashes, type "bt" in gdb and you should get a backtrace. You will need debug-enabled packages installed. See this link for info on doing this with gentoo: http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=Kmail%20Bug%20Management
found it: after upgrading, path to my .vcf file changed: gentoo uses ~/.kde3.5/
tony, is there a way to set this up to reproduce the problem then? (Just move std.vcf out of the way, or ...?)
changing "~/.kde3.5/" in path to my address book file back to "~/.kde-3.4/" broke kmail so badly i ended up grepping the tree to set it back to 3.5, kmail won't even start anymore.
I still don't really understand what steps I (or one of the developers) could take to try to reproduce the problem. Could you explain again?
tools->address book-> "file address book"->edit, in 'Location' change '/home/tony/kde3.5/...' to '/home/tony/kde3.4/....' click ok, ignore warning, click ok ignore warning, restart kmail. rightclick on an address in mail, "add to addressbook" and kmail hangs.
Tools -> Address book does not exist in Contact. We need you to be more clear with how to reproduce the crash. e.g. 1. open kontact 2. go the contacts view (in the sidebar) 3. go to tools -> blahh etc.
correction. "file address book"->edit does not exist in KAddressBook, at least not in the version that comes with 3.5.4
that's what the file was called on my system, under "Address Books"
"file address book" is the default name for a file resource - the actual string doesn't matter though. I can't reproduce this (3.5.6 on 10.3) and changing the resource settings to invalid paths is already warning'ed.