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    kaddressbook crashes. Weird solution included!

    I opened a thread in yakkety pre-release testing and can't write to that thread since yakkety is released. To make it short, kaddressbool was crashing since I installed 16.04.
    On some forums (I don't remember on which ones) I read, that this is related to contacts with a birthday field.
    So I tried this:
    1) backup all contacts from ~/.local/share/contacts
    remove all contacts from contacts directory (~/.local/share/contacts)
    stop akonadi
    remove all akonadi related files
    start akonadi
    Result: kaddressbook starts, is usable, is empty, of course
    2) add some contacts to the contacts dir.
    ensure that there is no BDAY field in any of them
    stop akonadi
    remove all akonadi related files
    start akonadi
    Result: kaddressbook starts, is usable !

    3) add all the other contacts to contacts dir. Now there are many of them with a BDAY field.
    stop akonadi
    remove all akonadi related files
    start akonadi
    Result: kaddressbook starts, is usable !?!?!?!?

    I don't know why, but now it is working.
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