Since some time (I think it started around kdelibs-3.3.0 release 8 or so) kontact crashes for me during startup (this is on suse 9.1). I have removed the kontactrc file, but that does not help. No new kontactrc is created. Kontact crashed with the following backtrace Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread 16384 (LWP 4464)] [KCrash handler] #5 0x081a8321 in ?? () #6 0x41820010 in __elf_set___libc_thread_subfreeres_element___rpc_thread_destroy__ () from /lib/libc.so.6 #7 0x081773d8 in ?? () #8 0x00000001 in ?? () #9 0x08136550 in ?? () #10 0x081610b0 in ?? () #11 0x41820a00 in __libc_tsd_MALLOC_data () from /lib/libc.so.6 #12 0x081610c0 in ?? () #13 0x416dd450 in __JCR_LIST__ () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 #14 0x081a5d20 in ?? () #15 0x08171548 in ?? () #16 0xbfffe658 in ?? () #17 0x416bac91 in operator delete () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 I set all plugin definitions in the (old) kontactrc file to false. It's still crashing. BTW, the mainwindow pops up, but when it is about to fill it, kontact crashes. The seperate apps (knotes, kmail, knode, korganizer) run okay. gdb kontact does not reveal much. What can be wrong?? -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless