History: I initially filed this as: 348772. This was set to a dupe of 347817; I corrected the mismatch of kactivity versions. In fact, I entirely reinstalled "KDE Plasma Desktop." The problem recurred when I started up this morning (the first KDE/Plasma session since reinstall). Problem: Plasma is unusable. The task bar and screen controls simply don't work. Task manager entries appear for already-open apps, but it and the other widgets on the panel don't work. (curiously the digital clock widget does keep time, so the panel isn't locked up.) I can interact with the open applications. I had a xterm open and it is available for checking logs and running queries. I'm able to start and use Gnome with no issues. This block of messages appears in /var/log/messages every few seconds during the KDE session: [code]Jun 7 06:35:52 linuxgame org.kde.kded5: kf5.kded: found kded module "remotedirnotify" by prepending 'kded_' to the library path, please fix your metadata. Jun 7 06:35:52 linuxgame org.kde.kded5: kf5.kded: found kded module "freespacenotifier" by prepending 'kded_' to the library path, please fix your metadata. Jun 7 06:35:52 linuxgame org.kde.kded5: kf5.kded: found kded module "khotkeys" by prepending 'kded_' to the library path, please fix your metadata. Jun 7 06:35:52 linuxgame org.kde.kded5: kf5.kded: found kded module "networkmanagement" by prepending 'kded_' to the library path, please fix your metadata. Jun 7 06:35:52 linuxgame org.kde.kded5: kf5.kded: found kded module "kscreen" by prepending 'kded_' to the library path, please fix your metadata. Jun 7 06:35:52 linuxgame org.kde.kded5: kf5.kded: found kded module "ktimezoned" by prepending 'kded_' to the library path, please fix your metadata. Jun 7 06:35:52 linuxgame org.kde.kded5: kf5.kded: found kded module "powerdevil" by prepending 'kded_' to the library path, please fix your metadata. Jun 7 06:35:52 linuxgame org.kde.kded5: kf5.kded: found kded module "statusnotifierwatcher" by prepending 'kded_' to the library path, please fix your metadata. Jun 7 06:35:52 linuxgame org.kde.kded5: kf5.kded: found kded module "kmixd" by prepending 'kded_' to the library path, please fix your metadata. Jun 7 06:35:52 linuxgame org.kde.kded5: kmix: kmixd: Triggering delayed initialization Jun 7 06:35:52 linuxgame org.kde.kded5: kf5.kded: found kded module "keyboard" by prepending 'kded_' to the library path, please fix your metadata. Jun 7 06:35:52 linuxgame org.kde.kded5: "Trying to convert empty KLocalizedString to QString." Jun 7 06:35:52 linuxgame org.kde.kded5: "Trying to convert empty KLocalizedString to QString." Jun 7 06:35:52 linuxgame org.kde.kded5: "Trying to convert empty KLocalizedString to QString." Jun 7 06:35:52 linuxgame org.kde.kded5: kf5.kded: found kded module "ksysguard" by prepending 'kded_' to the library path, please fix your metadata. Jun 7 06:35:52 linuxgame org.kde.kded5: kf5.kded: found kded module "touchpad" by prepending 'kded_' to the library path, please fix your metadata. Jun 7 06:35:53 linuxgame audit: <audit-1701> auid=1000 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=1 pid=8224 comm="kded5" exe="/usr/bin/kded5" sig=11 Jun 7 06:35:53 linuxgame abrt-hook-ccpp: Not saving repeating crash in '/usr/bin/kded5' [/code] * I am not sure which metadata is being referred to, and thus don't know how to fix it. * I do not see crash reports or core files for the "repeating crash" of kded5. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start Plasma session. 2. 3.
NOTE! The version selector does not allow me to specify the version. I reinstalled KDED5 last night. Version of most kf5 components is 5.10.0-1.
[SOLVED] (for me, Fedora 22 @ Samsung P200): The same here, after a recent update to Plasma 5.10. Task bar not responsive, et al. symptoms of kded5 constantly crashing and restarting in an infinite loop. Logs look almost the same. Downgrades, reinstalls - to no avail. Followed this: https://community.kde.org/Frameworks/Building#Runtime:_kded5_crashes_because_of_some_component Found that it's been "/usr/share/kservices5/kded/platformstatus.desktop" causing kded5 segfaults. Changed a line in it like "X-KDE-Kded-autoload=false", restarted, and it worked. This service is not present in system settings selector, and you can't get there anyway until you get kded5 up and running. What's NOT SOLVED: about a half of letters/digits on the task bar's clock and in application launcher look garbled - like interlaced horizontally, with every second line in the respective rasterized image missing. Does anybody experience something like this? And alpha transparency of window edges in call-outs and application launcher is broken like mosaic. Application windows and contents are rendered very well and fast, nevertheless.
Excellent, Alleoma! That worked for me as well. I am not seeing any unusual graphic drawing problems. Let's see if I can put that in the description.
Glad it helped, Stefan. Maybe, don't bother with my graphic issues - they don't pertain to this bug, in fact, if they don't go together in your case. It was a hit-or-miss remark, for it's very time-consuming to investigate all these drivers, acceleration, etc. Although there's a plain integrated Intel graphics. Let's see if it resolves on its own in time.
Apparently kservices5/kded/platformstatus.desktop comes from plasma-framework.
Git commit 71999d4aaca65f61fb959a49fe2f9d4ea4fcd226 by Marco Martin. Committed on 20/11/2015 at 10:16. Pushed by mart into branch 'master'. remove the now unised platformstatus kded M +0 -1 src/CMakeLists.txt D +0 -31 src/platformstatus/CMakeLists.txt D +0 -26 src/platformstatus/org.kde.platformstatus.xml D +0 -132 src/platformstatus/platformstatus.cpp D +0 -81 src/platformstatus/platformstatus.desktop D +0 -43 src/platformstatus/platformstatus.h http://commits.kde.org/plasma-framework/71999d4aaca65f61fb959a49fe2f9d4ea4fcd226