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#1 2018-01-13 22:15:16

lyntux
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[SOLVED] KDE Application Launcher is Crashing Plamsa

Recently, I've had trouble with KDE crashing in two different instances.

* Right clicking the taskbar/application panel. Usually to close a window.
* Clicking the application launcher, or activating it using the keyboard shortcut that I configured.

I also cannot open the KDE system settings.

I created a test user and that user with a fresh profile doesn't experience any of the problems.

So, my issue is that I've tried every way that I can find people suggesting for resetting/clearing KDE and Plasma settings, but I'm still not getting a completely fresh KDE profile and I'm still experincing the problems.

I've backed up/delete:
* Every plasma file and folder in the ~/.config/ and ~/.local/share/ folders
* ~/.kde4
* ~/.kde4/share/config/kdeglobals
* ~/.cache/plasmashell

There are a couple of bugs on the KDE bug traker for this, but I don't want to wait for if/when the bugs get solved.
* https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388477
* https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387562

What else do I need to delete to reset my KDE profile?

Last edited by lyntux (2018-01-18 04:15:58)

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#2 2018-01-14 09:37:24

seth
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Re: [SOLVED] KDE Application Launcher is Crashing Plamsa

Deleting random things fixes random things by random chance only...
Figure what the bug is. DrKonqi should show up on crashes (in doubt install it) and provide you access to a backtrace.

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#3 2018-01-14 10:32:35

sunnylx
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Re: [SOLVED] KDE Application Launcher is Crashing Plamsa

Since the last update, also for me PlasmaShell is crashing periodically. It crashes, and after a while it comes back again, then it crashes again after a few minutes. Repeat...

Dual monitor with Nvidia drivers.

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#4 2018-01-14 10:55:21

arojas
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Re: [SOLVED] KDE Application Launcher is Crashing Plamsa

lyntux wrote:

What else do I need to delete to reset my KDE profile?

Remove ~/.local/share/kactivitymanagerd/resources/

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#5 2018-01-14 10:55:56

arojas
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Re: [SOLVED] KDE Application Launcher is Crashing Plamsa

sunnylx wrote:

Since the last update, also for me PlasmaShell is crashing periodically. It crashes, and after a while it comes back again, then it crashes again after a few minutes. Repeat...

Dual monitor with Nvidia drivers.

This is unrelated and caused by the latest Discover update. Disable the updates applet form the system tray.

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#6 2018-01-14 14:55:03

Herr_Irrtum
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Re: [SOLVED] KDE Application Launcher is Crashing Plamsa

arojas wrote:

Remove ~/.local/share/kactivitymanagerd/resources/

Doesn't resolve anything but deletes favorits and stuff.

seth wrote:

DrKonqi should show up on crashes (in doubt install it) and provide you access to a backtrace.

Right in theory, however the only backtrace there is reads...

Application: Plasma (plasmashell), signal: Segmentation fault

Update: Ups - I may have written to the wrong Issue here. My issue is crashing as soon as starting a search (while typing fast) within krunnder or k menue (on 3 different arch installations). Sorry. May open this as separate issue (but right now I'm running out of time).

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#7 2018-01-14 14:56:50

seth
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Re: [SOLVED] KDE Application Launcher is Crashing Plamsa

There is *nothing* else? You should run plasmashell in gdb then.

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#8 2018-01-14 15:03:53

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Re: [SOLVED] KDE Application Launcher is Crashing Plamsa

seth wrote:

There is *nothing* else? You should run plasmashell in gdb then.

Thx Seth. But gdb? I'd rather use strace. But I'm in the wrong thread anyway. Sorry for waking anyone up...

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#9 2018-01-14 15:14:47

seth
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Re: [SOLVED] KDE Application Launcher is Crashing Plamsa

strace would only tell you which system calls occur while things go south - that's only relevant to see what files are opened but you'd be more interested in which library (and ideally of course which call/line) the segfault occurs.

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#10 2018-01-14 22:51:19

lyntux
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Re: [SOLVED] KDE Application Launcher is Crashing Plamsa

sunnylx wrote:

Dual monitor with Nvidia drivers.

Nailed it.

seth wrote:

There is *nothing* else? You should run plasmashell in gdb then.

I'm not very familiar with gdb, I'm not having much luck googling. I tried attaching gdb to plasmashell, but plasma just freezes until I detach it in gdb. I have a .kcrash output from DrKonqi and can post it if you think that would help.

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#11 2018-01-15 11:19:59

asshur
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Re: [SOLVED] KDE Application Launcher is Crashing Plamsa

arojas wrote:
lyntux wrote:

What else do I need to delete to reset my KDE profile?

Remove ~/.local/share/kactivitymanagerd/resources/

It worked for me (to be certain I just deleted the directory contents, and I lost all my favorite settings, but alas.)

In my case what I saw was that kactivitymanage was dumping after a number of messages stating that the kactivities database couldn't open in wal mode. In fact, my directory lacked the "database" file

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#12 2018-01-15 13:36:57

sunnylx
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Re: [SOLVED] KDE Application Launcher is Crashing Plamsa

arojas wrote:
sunnylx wrote:

Since the last update, also for me PlasmaShell is crashing periodically. It crashes, and after a while it comes back again, then it crashes again after a few minutes. Repeat...

Dual monitor with Nvidia drivers.

This is unrelated and caused by the latest Discover update. Disable the updates applet form the system tray.

That explains why in my work computer, plasmashell doesn't crash since on that one I do not have Discover installed.

Thanks for the tip.

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#13 2018-01-15 17:00:17

seth
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Re: [SOLVED] KDE Application Launcher is Crashing Plamsa

you have to "run" or "continue" in gdb after starting / attaching a process.

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#14 2018-01-15 19:22:02

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Re: [SOLVED] KDE Application Launcher is Crashing Plamsa

Resolve for me following Arojas "Remove ~/.local/share/kactivitymanagerd/resources/"

Thanks !!!!

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#15 2018-01-16 03:01:54

lyntux
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Re: [SOLVED] KDE Application Launcher is Crashing Plamsa

Thanks for the reply seth, I just wish other "quick start guide to gdb" had advice that helpful.

Here's what I got.  I don't know if this is helpful to anyone, since it's a lot shorter than I expected.

Process:
* ran gdb
* attached to plasma
* continued in gdb
* right clicked in plasma
* gdb output:

Thread 1 "plasmashell" received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.

* continued in gdb
* gdb output:

Thread 1 "plasmashell" received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.

* plasma ended and restarted, gdb stopped logging since plasma has a new pid

(gdb) attach 10873
Attaching to process 10873
[New LWP 10877]
[New LWP 10878]
[New LWP 10882]
[New LWP 10895]
[New LWP 10896]
[New LWP 10906]
[New LWP 10910]
[New LWP 10914]
[New LWP 10944]
[New LWP 10945]
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/usr/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
0x00007f636bc8c91b in poll () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) continue
Continuing.

Thread 1 "plasmashell" received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
0x00007f636bbd5860 in raise () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) continue
Continuing.

Thread 1 "plasmashell" received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
0x00007f636bbd5860 in raise () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) 

I can post the DrKonqi output, but I don't know if I need to censor anything in that.

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#16 2018-01-16 10:00:41

seth
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Re: [SOLVED] KDE Application Launcher is Crashing Plamsa

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/De … _the_trace smile

Continuing a crashed process won't help. We need the backtrace (ie. what caused the abort in libc)

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#17 2018-01-16 10:28:57

lyntux
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Re: [SOLVED] KDE Application Launcher is Crashing Plamsa

Does the DrKonqi output help?

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#18 2018-01-16 10:45:34

seth
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Re: [SOLVED] KDE Application Launcher is Crashing Plamsa

Sure (it's the backtrace, I thought you'd run into the same output as Herr_Irrtum)

#6  0x00007f0b349dbec9 in abort () at /usr/lib/libc.so.6
#7  0x00007f0b3517d8c8 in  () at /usr/lib/libQt5Core.so.5
#8  0x00007f0a75333227 in  () at /usr/lib/libKF5ActivitiesStats.so.1
#9  0x00007f0a75316d84 in KActivities::Stats::ResultSet::ResultSet(KActivities::Stats::Query) () at /usr/lib/libKF5ActivitiesStats.so.1
#10 0x00007f0a6d61e099 in  () at /usr/lib/qt/qml/org/kde/plasma/private/taskmanager/libtaskmanagerplugin.so
#11 0x00007f0a6d62ca14 in  () at /usr/lib/qt/qml/org/kde/plasma/private/taskmanager/libtaskmanagerplugin.so
#12 0x00007f0b383496ba in  () at /usr/lib/libQt5Qml.so.5

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 7#p1761147

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#19 2018-01-18 04:14:49

lyntux
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Re: [SOLVED] KDE Application Launcher is Crashing Plamsa

Removed ~/.local/share/kactivitymanagerd/resources/ and everything's working again. Thanks for everyone's help!

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#20 2018-01-25 04:15:29

doctorzeus
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Re: [SOLVED] KDE Application Launcher is Crashing Plamsa

That worked great thanks! However is anyone else having the issue of the meta key no longer opening the application launcher?

Anybody been able to fix this?

Last edited by doctorzeus (2018-01-25 04:29:50)

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#21 2018-01-30 03:40:45

lyntux
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Re: [SOLVED] KDE Application Launcher is Crashing Plamsa

Sorry, my meta key is working just fine.

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#22 2018-02-11 04:10:34

doctorzeus
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Re: [SOLVED] KDE Application Launcher is Crashing Plamsa

Ok so solution for the meta key problem if anyone else comes across this thread later:

Go to ~/.config/kwinrc

Then Remove These Lines:

[ModifierOnlyShortcuts]
Meta=

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#23 2020-06-04 14:53:29

zpg443
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Re: [SOLVED] KDE Application Launcher is Crashing Plamsa

Everything is working great after regular system update. You have got a specific issue.

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#24 2020-06-04 15:05:49

V1del
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Re: [SOLVED] KDE Application Launcher is Crashing Plamsa

Please pay attention to which thread you are responding to, you are posting in a 2 year old solved thread.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … bumping%22

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