Kontact and KOrganizer

[Richard Barmann]

On 04/28/2016 01:11 AM, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Richard Barmann wrote:
>> The above two programs have been crashing when opened or trying to add
>> an event for the last several releases. Has anyone tried to solve
>> this?
> What do you mean by "for the last several releases"? I can't imagine
> that a bug like this hasn't been fixed for several years.
>
> Anyway, I would suggest to add another user to your system and try if it
> works if you login as that other user. If that is the case, there is a
> problem with a file in your $HOME folder, maybe a config file or a data
> file which stores data for the application which crashes.
>
> Please tell us which Kubuntu release you are using - the location of the
> config files has changed recently.
>
>> I like KOrganizer but cannot get it to work. At one time it was
>> listed as a bug but I did not understand the solution.
> Can you post a link to the bug and the proposed solution?
>
>> I looked at
>> the solution that is in the debugging page but it is beyond my level.
>> Why could we not have a solution that solves the problem and run it.
>> I went to Synaptic and looked for " kdepim-dbg" as suggested but it
>> was not in Synaptic.
> In synaptic I can see kdepim-dbg and also kdepimlibs-dbg - on a machine
> with 14.04. But the debug packages won't cure the problem, they are only
> useful to locate and report bugs.
>
>
> Nils
>
> The bug was solved at this site but I do not understand it.
https://chakraos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=14483
Dick Barmann