Version: 1.2.5 (using KDE 3.5.7) Installed from: Debian testing/unstable Packages Compiler: gcc version 4.1.3 20080114 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-19) Target is AMD 32-bit Athlon processor circa 2003 OS: Linux Here are the steps: 1 -- Go to application menu 2 -- Select Kontact 3 -- Select "Contacts" Kontact completely shuts down. Is this normal? Why would clicking on "Contacts" totally shut the application down and cause it to disappear off the desktop? Ed
Can you try to get a backtrace, as described in http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Debugging/How_to_create_useful_crash_reports ? If that doesn't work, please run Kontact from inside a terminal window and attach the output here.
Hello, I'm not familiar with backtraces so I did the quick and dirty thing which is to run kontact at the command line and cut and paste the before and after command line text. See below. I can learn how to do a backtrace as well if you'd like me to. Just thought I try the quick and dirty thing first for the sake of immediacy. Again, see below. Kind regards, Ed Abbott ined@cpe-76-179-158-184:~$ kontact ined@cpe-76-179-158-184:~$ QLayout::addChildLayout: layout already has a parent kontact: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libkaddressbook.so.0: undefined symbol: _ZNK4KABC9Addressee10departmentEv ined@cpe-76-179-158-184:~$
> kontact: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libkaddressbook.so.0: undefined symbol: _ZNK4KABC9Addressee10departmentEv Ah, that's what I suspected. A symbol lookup error usually indicates you're mixing the wrong versions of libraries and applications. This is not a KDE bug, but probably a bug in the packages. Please report it to your distribution (Debian).