KDE Plasma 5 Akonadi KOrganizer Calendar segmentation fault – crash

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While moving some appointments away from my usual per-year Calendar directory to a per re-occurring appointment Calendar file, the “akonadi_icaldir_resource” instance handling the affected Calendar directory crashed due to a segmentation fault.

  • DrKonqi → KDE Bug Report.
Operating System: openSUSE Leap 15.6
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.11
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.115.0
Qt Version: 5.15.12
Kernel Version: 6.4.0-150600.23.42-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × AMD Ryzen 5 3400G with Radeon Vega Graphics
Memory: 29.3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Vega 11 Graphics
Manufacturer: ASUS

The response of the KDE developers is as follows –

I’m sorry but your version is no longer supported.
please upgrade and try again

<https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=502611>

Can we assume that, for the case of Leap 15.6 that, all KDE Plasma issues reported will no longer be addressed by the KDE folks and, that we’ll have to wait for the Leap 16.0 before they’ll resume responding to our Bug Reports?

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This is the issue with fixed release distributions compared to rolling ones.

The latest Plasma 5 bugfix release 5.27.12 is from January 2025. But Leap still uses an older one from March 2024.

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And, there doesn’t seem to be any work in progress – at least AFAICS …

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Stopped waiting for Leap in August 2016 and switched to Tumbleweed. No more recurring annoyances such as Konsole With "su -" Freezing The System.

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Not really desperately needed – the crash of a particular instance of the Akonadis iCal directory resource only occurs when moving a few appointments off to a new iCal file resource instance and, that task has now been completed …

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Supposedly you can get help from openSUSE devs.
You can also install newer versions from Experimental repos.

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Looking at the “Unstable” repos, the January 2025 Plasma 5 code ain’t there yet – it could very well be that, there’s a concentrated effort to get Plasma 6 / Qt 6 ready for Leap …

Whether or not, there are repairs for segmentation faults (always due to, something trying to access an area of memory it’s not allowed to access … ) in the Plasma 6 / Qt 6 code, is, as always, a 64 dollar question …

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You can install Plasma 6 on Leap 15.6.

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I filed Bug 1241129 - “Will Leap 15.6 get update to KDE Plasma 5.27.12 from 5.27.11?”

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@Svyatko:

Thank you.

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Answer from developer: 1241129 – Will Leap 15.6 get update to KDE Plasma 5.27.12 from 5.27.11?

Fabian Vogt 2025-04-14 08:39:33 UTC

We only submit new versions on request, if there is no bug reported downstream we keep it as-is to avoid unexpected changes. If you are affected by a bug that’s fixed in 5.27.12, please state so and we can submit that version as update.

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And here – the Plasma 5.27.12 Complete Changelog – <https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/plasma/5/5.27.11-5.27.12/>

Hmm … – Nothing in there about Akonadi repairs …
Checking KDE Gear – <https://community.kde.org/KDE_Gear>

Hmm … – It seems that, waiting for KDE Plasma 6 / Qt 6 is the only realistic thing to do … :cry: