KMail and Kontact crash on start after KDE Gear 26.08.2
After the KDE Gear 26.08.2 update, KMail and Kontact fail to start with an undefined symbol error in a WebEngine library.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
5 public reports · first reported 8 October 2026 · last reported 8 October 2026
What's going wrong
After the KDE Gear 26.08.2 update, KMail and Kontact fail to launch on some Linux systems.
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