17 Sep 2024
How to fix KMail not starting
How I got my KMail working again when it crashed during the startup process
2024-09-17 06:00 +0200
Last night, I suddenly could not start KMail anymore.
Konsole revealed this:
$ kmail
org.kde.pim.kmail: setFcc: collection invalid ""
We have an error during reading password "Entry not found"
*** KMail got signal 11 (Exiting)
*** Dead letters dumped.
KCrash: Application 'kmail' crashing... crashRecursionCounter = 2
fish: Job 1, 'kmail' terminated by signal SIGSEGV (Address boundary error)
Luckily, I quickly found a fix:
rm ~/.local/share/kmail2/autosave/*
Don’t know what caused this problem and why KMail chokes on autosave files, but at least I can now start it again.