Bug 456536

Summary:	"plasmashell[882]: Aborting shell load: The activity manager daemon (kactivitymanagerd) is not running" Error when kactivitymanage is running
Product:	[Plasma] kactivitymanagerd	Reporter:	Sam <thenerdiestguy>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Ivan Čukić <ivan.cukic>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	minor	CC:	fanzhuyifan, kde, nate, plasma-bugs
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.25.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422682
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Sam 2022-07-10 02:54:13 UTC

SUMMARY
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STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Use `pgrep kactivitymanage` to ensure it is running
2. Check `journalctl -b --grep "Aborting shell load"`
3. See error

OBSERVED RESULT
plasmashell[882]: Aborting shell load: The activity manager daemon (kactivitymanagerd) is not running.
plasmashell[882]: If this Plasma has been installed into a custom prefix, verify that its D-Bus services dir is known to the system for the daemon to be activatable.
plasmashell[882]: Aborting shell load: The activity manager daemon (kactivitymanagerd) is not running.
Jul 10 07:52:16 arch plasmashell[882]: If this Plasma has been installed into a custom prefix, verify that its D-Bus services dir is known to the system for the daemon to be activatable.

EXPECTED RESULT
No errors

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 
macOS: 
Linux/KDE Plasma: 
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.25.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.95.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Comment 1 Sam 2022-07-10 02:54:36 UTC

Note: plasma runs and loads just fine

Comment 2 fanzhuyifan 2023-10-07 16:25:44 UTC

For me, this happens a lot and sometimes the windows menu is missing the switch to activities action entries.