Bug 397091

Summary: All applications are gone (app launcher is empty and taskbar icons dont work)
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Lucia Mrenica <lucia.mrenica>
Component: generalAssignee: David Edmundson <kde>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: major CC: lucia.mrenica, nate, plasma-bugs-null
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.14.2   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: Screenshot of empty app launcher.

Description Lucia Mrenica 2018-08-02 13:55:45 UTC
Created attachment 114268 [details]
Screenshot of empty app launcher.

But no apps were uninstalled, they only aren't listed in Plasma, and actually work.
Comment 1 Lucia Mrenica 2018-08-02 13:56:47 UTC
Running plasmashell with LANG=C doesnt produce this bug.
Comment 2 David Edmundson 2018-08-02 17:02:45 UTC
:/ that's odd.

Please paste output of kbuildsycoca5 --noincremental
Comment 3 Lucia Mrenica 2018-08-02 17:11:15 UTC
(In reply to David Edmundson from comment #2)
> :/ that's odd.
> 
> Please paste output of kbuildsycoca5 --noincremental

Currently everything works correctly but it was already second time this came and gone.

kbuildsycoca5 running...
kf5.kservice.sycoca: Parse error in  "/home/mthw/.config/menus/applications-merged/xdg-desktop-menu-dummy.menu" , line  1 , col  1 :  "unexpected end of file"
kf5.kservice.services: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/applications/org.kde.systemmonitor.desktop" has Type= "Application" but no Exec line
kf5.kservice.sycoca: Invalid Service :  "/usr/share/applications/org.kde.systemmonitor.desktop"
kf5.kservice.services: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/applications/org.gnome.ChromeGnomeShell.desktop" has Type= "Application" but no Exec line
kf5.kservice.sycoca: Invalid Service :  "/usr/share/applications/org.gnome.ChromeGnomeShell.desktop"
kf5.kservice.services: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/applications/org.kde.drkonqi.desktop" has Type= "Application" but no Exec line
kf5.kservice.sycoca: Invalid Service :  "/usr/share/applications/org.kde.drkonqi.desktop"
kf5.kservice.services: The desktop entry file "/usr/local/share/applications/org.kde.systemmonitor.desktop" has Type= "Application" but no Exec line
kf5.kservice.sycoca: Invalid Service :  "/usr/local/share/applications/org.kde.systemmonitor.desktop"
Comment 4 Lucia Mrenica 2018-09-13 11:38:43 UTC
I haven't had this issue in a while so I will close this issue, and reopen if needed.
Comment 5 Lucia Mrenica 2018-11-14 21:36:16 UTC
Today after using Gnome for a while this issue appeared again exactly as described. It is most likely caused by Gnome but could you help me anyway?
Comment 6 Lucia Mrenica 2020-05-23 11:53:51 UTC
I haven't had this issue for more than a year now so I am closing this.