Version: (using KDE 4.2.0) Compiler: gcc version 4.3.2 20081105 (Red Hat 4.3.2-7) (GCC) OS: Linux Installed from: Fedora RPMs It all started when I added attachments to an appointment in korganizer (via kontact), after I received a mail related to it. I added: - one pdf - a second pdf - the mail containing both pdf as attachment. Then, kontact crashed... and I was unable to restart it. The backtrace indicated that it was crashing when decoding the attachments bith libical... in some toString method. The only solution I found was to - first identify the faulty entry in the database with the akonadi console - then open the database directly with mysql, and delete the entry by hand. Even the akonadi console was crashing when trying to read the faulty entry, so I could not delete it directly from there. The entry removed, I could restart kontact without problem. (akonadi is configured to use the internal mysql server.) Sorry, I lost the backtrace, and I really don't want to try to reproduce it... I only have my production system and recovery was tricky. I made a sql dump, so I can provide by the INSERT statement to put the entry in the akonadi database... since it contains some personal data I will only do it on request by mail.
That was fixed in libical>=0.42, are you using an older release?
Indeed... I am using the version provided by Fedora 10: Version : 0.41 Release : 2.fc10
Thanks for the info. Please ask your distro to update libical or to provide a patched 0.41. If the issue persists reopen but don't forget the backtrace :)