Thursday, September 1, 2011

Akregator Segmentation fault

If akregator is having problems starting up and gives a KDE crash dialog stating that there was a Segmentation fault, it could possibly be a corrupted mk4 file somewhere in ~/.kde/share/apps/akegrator/Archive. The easy solution is to delete the Archive but you lose all article flags. It's better if we could find which RSS feed is causing the problem and nuke that instead. To do that use the following command:
strace -f -e trace=open akregator
The last mk4 file in the Archive directory that was opened before the segmentation fault occured will be the culprit. Just rename or delete the file and try again. If it crashes again, repeat and see if it's another mk4 file. IF not, it's some other problem.