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uhrbaan

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Registered: Yesterday

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plasmashell 6.6.5 crashing on loop

Hi ! First time posting on Arch linux forums.

Recently I updated my system with `pacman -Syu`. Upon logging back in, KDE plasma keeps crashing in a loop. Here are the journalctl lines that seemed relevant:

```
juin 03 16:26:20 slimbook plasmashell[1812]: mimeType() not emitted when sending first data!; job URL = QUrl("https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/") data size = 0
juin 03 16:26:20 slimbook plasmashell[1812]: mimeType() not emitted when sending first data!; job URL = QUrl("https://www.bing.com/HPImageArchive.aspx?format=js&idx=0&n=1") data size = 0
juin 03 16:26:20 slimbook plasmashell[1812]: mimeType() not emitted when sending first data!; job URL = QUrl("https://www.bing.com/HPImageArchive.aspx?format=js&idx=0&n=1") data size = 0
juin 03 16:26:20 slimbook plasmashell[1812]: KCrash: Application 'plasmashell' crashing... crashRecursionCounter = 2
juin 03 16:26:22 slimbook plasmashell[2943]: Could not find required file "mainscript" for package "/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.icontasks/" should be QList("ui/main.qml")
juin 03 16:26:23 slimbook plasmashell[2943]: Member visible of the object PlasmaQuick::Dialog overrides a member of the base object. Consider renaming it or adding final or override specifier
juin 03 16:26:23 slimbook plasmashell[2943]: Member enabled of the object DeclarativeDropArea overrides a member of the base object. Consider renaming it or adding final or override specifier
juin 03 16:26:23 slimbook plasmashell[2943]: KCrash: Application 'plasmashell' crashing... crashRecursionCounter = 2
juin 03 16:26:25 slimbook plasmashell[3207]: Could not find required file "mainscript" for package "/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.icontasks/" should be QList("ui/main.qml")
juin 03 16:26:26 slimbook plasmashell[3207]: Member visible of the object PlasmaQuick::Dialog overrides a member of the base object. Consider renaming it or adding final or override specifier
juin 03 16:26:26 slimbook plasmashell[3207]: Member enabled of the object DeclarativeDropArea overrides a member of the base object. Consider renaming it or adding final or override specifier
juin 03 16:26:26 slimbook plasmashell[3207]: KCrash: Application 'plasmashell' crashing... crashRecursionCounter = 2
juin 03 16:33:53 slimbook plasmashell[9529]: Member visible of the object PlasmaQuick::Dialog overrides a member of the base object. Consider renaming it or adding final or override specifier
juin 03 16:33:53 slimbook plasmashell[9529]: Member enabled of the object DeclarativeDropArea overrides a member of the base object. Consider renaming it or adding final or override specifier
# Last three lines repeat over and over.
```

I've tried a few things, like clearing the cache, resetting my configuration, but no luck so far.
Ideally, I would have simply reverted the plasma-desktop to a previous version, but I seem to have removed older versions, I was probably running low on space on my `/` partition :')

Would somebody have a clue as to how to fix this issue ?
Best regards,
Uhrbaan

floriv

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Registered: 2023-07-13

Posts: 18

Re: plasmashell 6.6.5 crashing on loop

I'm having the same problem. There are already issues in the KDE bug tracker regarding similar problems.

Unfortunately, I haven't found a workaround yet.

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=520968
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=520985

floriv

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Registered: 2023-07-13

Posts: 18

Re: plasmashell 6.6.5 crashing on loop

You can try downgrading fontconfig; that worked for me. But maybe you have a different problem.

sudo pacman -U https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/f/fontconfig/fontconfig-2:2.17.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: plasmashell 6.6.5 crashing on loop

Ifff it's not fontconfig,

Here are the journalctl lines that seemed relevant:

Post the ones that don't seem relevant, ie. the entire system journal

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STEELBAS

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From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2010-01-18

Posts: 84

Re: plasmashell 6.6.5 crashing on loop

You can try downgrading fontconfig; that worked for me. But maybe you have a different problem.

sudo pacman -U https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/f/fontconfig/fontconfig-2:2.17.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

Thank you, this solved my plashma shell crashes. How did you figure out it was fontconfig? I was flailing around trying to find the culprit before I found your post.

floriv

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Registered: 2023-07-13

Posts: 18

Re: plasmashell 6.6.5 crashing on loop

How did you figure out it was fontconfig?

I'm glad to hear it worked out.

The stack trace mentioned something about “Text.” I checked which packages had been updated most recently, looked for any that sounded like Text/QT/KDE, and tried them one by one (there were only 5).

Zero intelligence, 100% brute force.

Last edited by floriv (Today 15:20:57)