3.5.10 Kontact crashing on startup

[Alexander Smirnov]

Dotan Cohen пишет:
> 2008/9/5 Alexander Smirnov <alexander.v.smirnov at gmail.com>:
>   
>> Dotan Cohen пишет:
>>     
>>> I had just upgraded to KDE 3.5.10 and now I cannot start Kontact:
>>> hardy2 at hardy2-laptop:~$ kontact
>>> QLayout::addChildLayout: layout already has a parent
>>> kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KActionCollection::KActionCollection(
>>> QObject *parent, const char *name, KInstance *instance )
>>> hardy2 at hardy2-laptop:~$ KCrash: Application 'kontact' crashing...
>>>
>>> hardy2 at hardy2-laptop:~$
>>>
>>> This is a mission-critical app for me. What must I do to start troubleshooting?
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> have you managed to resolve that?
>>
>>     
>
> No, Alexander, I have not. The problem persists.
>
> I have discovered that if I click quickly enough, I can switch to a
> separate component, which prevents the app from crashing. Thus, a
> viable workaround is to set Kontact to always open in the Summary
> view. However, I consider this a workaround and not a solution.
>
>   

ok. looks mysterious. I often have problems with kontact app when 
upgrading it. This is a compound application, and every it's atom should 
be updated in order to get all this zoo working. I've found that 
'kdepim' package is the meta  package  which installs all necessary 
applications (there are many separate packages like 'kmail', 
'akregator', 'kontact' and this confuses).

Could you please ensure that 'kdepim' is installed on your system?
try
sudo apt-get install kdepim