anyone else having problems with liferea?

[Joe Smith]

It's been working fine for months, but today it's MIA. It seems to be 
running, but shows no window or panel icon.

Running it from a console, I get:
> $ liferea
> ** (liferea-bin:11257): WARNING **: Liferea seems to be running already!
> $ killall liferea-bin
> $ liferea &
> [1] 11514
> **
> ** ERROR:(db.c:697):db_init: assertion failed: (sqlite3_get_autocommit (db))
> 12c6bfad-4132-3dfd-08809636-3a075dc2 is dumped
> 
> [1]+  Done                    liferea

Starting it with an empty config doesn't help; starting under a 
different user gives:
> $ liferea
> **
> ** ERROR:(db.c:697):db_init: assertion failed: (sqlite3_get_autocommit (db))
> liferea-bin: xcb_io.c:120: process_responses: Assertion `!(req && current_request && !((int) ((req->sequence) - (current_request)) <= 0))' failed.
> Aborted

Any suggestions?

<Joe