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deathholes

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Registered: 2015-07-30

Posts: 21

Plasma 5 crashing frequently

Hi there,
This is my first post in arch linux forums. I've been using arch linux from last 4-5 months and am happy with it. I use KDE as my only DE. Earlier i was using KDE4 but wanted to try plasma 5. So i had installed plasma 5 after removing kde4. I've been updating the packages regularly and my current plasma version is 5.3.2 based on Qt 5.5.
Lately i've been facing issues of plasma crashing frequently. Although it restarts automatically, but still it is annoying. So what i want to know if this issue is specific to my machine or are there any other users also who are facing the same issue.

I was thinking if i can reinstall the plasma 5 packages after removing all the KDE packages (may be some kde4 packages are still there which are causing the issue).
thanks.

Tambalamba

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Registered: 2015-03-13

Posts: 45

Re: Plasma 5 crashing frequently

after removing kde4

Do you mean kdebase-workspace? As per https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KDE#Plasma_Desktop?

i want to know if this issue is specific to my machine

What machine?

Please provide some more details.

Last edited by Tambalamba (2015-07-30 15:16:41)

deathholes

Member

Registered: 2015-07-30

Posts: 21

Re: Plasma 5 crashing frequently

I had removed the packages as mentioned in the link posted above.
I had taken help of this article:
http://www.linuxveda.com/2015/02/27/how … rch-linux/

Details of my machine:

i3-2470M - 1st gen
4GB Memory
linux- kernel : 4.1.2-2
OS: Arch Linux 64-bit
Dedicated Graphics: None

tell me if you need any more details

Scimmia

Fellow

Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 12,093

Re: Plasma 5 crashing frequently

It's a known issue related to newer versions of mesa, IIRC.

Tambalamba

Member

Registered: 2015-03-13

Posts: 45

Re: Plasma 5 crashing frequently

Hmmm,

deatholes used

  pacman -Rc kdebase-workspace 

to remove it.

Could

pacman -Rc

be a probem because

REMOVE OPTIONS
       -c, --cascade
           Remove all target packages, as well as all packages that depend on one or more target packages. This operation is recursive and must be used with care, since it can remove many potentially needed packages

And there are many people here warning about this. Is there a possibility that deatholes removed some packages he still needs?

arojas

Developer

From: Spain

Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 2,151

Re: Plasma 5 crashing frequently

Intel driver?

deathholes

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Registered: 2015-07-30

Posts: 21

Re: Plasma 5 crashing frequently

intel driver:
libva-intel-driver 1.6.0-1
xf86-video-intel 1:2.99.917+381+g5772556-1

mesa version:
lib32-mesa 10.6.2-1
lib32-mesa-libgl 10.6.2-1
mesa 10.6.2-1
mesa-libgl 10.6.2-1

arojas

Developer

From: Spain

Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 2,151

Re: Plasma 5 crashing frequently

Can't say for sure without a backtrace, but it's very likely what Scimmia said

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments … asma5_and/

deathholes

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Registered: 2015-07-30

Posts: 21

Re: Plasma 5 crashing frequently

Can't say for sure without a backtrace, but it's very likely what Scimmia said

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments … asma5_and/

Trying this, will post the results after 1-2 days as the issue happens randomly.

amish

Member

Registered: 2014-05-10

Posts: 475

Re: Plasma 5 crashing frequently

I have same issue too. Plasma would crash and restart.

Noticing from about may be 3-4 weeks. (Never recorded date)

But since it was not causing much issue I ignored it.

Today I got time to search for issue and report. Will try the Intel fix and report back.

Last edited by amish (2015-08-02 11:28:09)

AnAkkk

Member

Registered: 2014-03-03

Posts: 148

Re: Plasma 5 crashing frequently

I'm also affected by the issue since more than one month now, plasmashell crashes all the time. I think it started happening after an update to xf86-video-intel.

ali-libre

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Registered: 2015-03-19

Posts: 27

Re: Plasma 5 crashing frequently

funny, unstable/testing version of plasma5 was stabler than stable plasma5 for me....

note: kdebase-workspace are in conflict with plasma , so pacman will remove them before install plasma

Last edited by ali-libre (2015-08-03 01:04:49)

amish

Member

Registered: 2014-05-10

Posts: 475

Re: Plasma 5 crashing frequently

Ok so this may sound strange and weird.

Yesterday I changed xorg settings AccelMethod "uxa" (as per link above)

It seemed to work fine till today. i.e. plasma did not crash. (as far as I remember)

But then today I wanted to print something, so I attached my printer but nothing was getting printed.

Then suddenly system got hung.

After forced reboot it was still not printing.

So I realized that somehow printer had got "disabled". So I enabled it.

But after printing one page. System again got hung.

So I forced rebooted again.

System would hang again within 2-3 minutes after attaching printer.

That happened 2-3 times.

So then I removed "uxa" settings (removed conf file)

And now system is running perfectly and I also was able to print 2 more pages.

Strange but well thats what happened!

I dont know what actually was happening - but I would let plasma crash and auto-restart instead of letting whole system crash.

Last edited by amish (2015-08-03 14:08:51)

deathholes

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Registered: 2015-07-30

Posts: 21

Re: Plasma 5 crashing frequently

I've tested for 3 days and found that plasma is no more crashing for me.
But after seeing Amish's comment, it seems that is may not be permanent solution. ( Don't know how display driver and printer are related. )
Thanks for the help.