Bug 159468

Summary: Clicking on Contacts Causes Kontact to Shutdown
Product: [Applications] kontact Reporter: Ed Abbott <ed>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: crash    
Priority: NOR    
Version: 1.2.5   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Debian testing   
OS: Linux   
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Description Ed Abbott 2008-03-17 15:23:52 UTC 
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
Comment 1 Thomas McGuire 2008-03-17 17:27:56 UTC 
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.
Comment 2 Ed Abbott 2008-03-18 02:52:39 UTC 
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:~$
Comment 3 Thomas McGuire 2008-03-18 13:52:02 UTC 
> 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).