Bug 413059

Summary: Plasma crashes after switching activities
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: techxgames
Component: generalAssignee: David Edmundson <kde>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: crash CC: plasma-bugs, rikmills
Priority: NOR    
Version: 5.17.0   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: Backtrace
Backtrace of crash at startup
Backtrace after I tweaked Plasma Renderer settings

Description techxgames 2019-10-16 20:27:14 UTC
Created attachment 123255 [details]
Backtrace

SUMMARY
Sometimes, when I switch to a different activity, Plasma crashes.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Switch to a different activity

OBSERVED RESULT
Black screen occurs, then I have to reload it with `plasmashell --replace`

EXPECTED RESULT
Should be able to load normally

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Kubuntu 19.10
KDE Plasma Version: 5.17.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.62.0
Qt Version: 5.12.4
Kernel Version: 5.3.0-18-generic
OS Type: 64-bit
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-6500 CPU @ 3.20GHz
Memory: 15.6 GiB of RAM
GPU: GTX 1060

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Dunno if this affected it, but I have a script that'll allow me to change CPU frequency and GPU performance based on the activity it switched to.
Comment 1 techxgames 2019-10-16 20:28:41 UTC
Created attachment 123256 [details]
Backtrace of crash at startup

I attached the backtrace of my first reboot after I upgraded to Plasma 5.17
Comment 2 techxgames 2019-10-16 20:50:17 UTC
Created attachment 123259 [details]
Backtrace after I tweaked Plasma Renderer settings

So after tweaked Plasma Renderer, by using OpenGL for the backend the Threaded for Loop, Plasma Shell still crashes, but it reloads this time around.
Comment 3 techxgames 2019-10-17 01:22:08 UTC
(In reply to techxgames from comment #2)
> Plasma Shell still crashes, but it reloads this time
> around.

Spoke too soon
Comment 4 techxgames 2019-10-17 02:54:43 UTC
It seems that the crash mainly happens after I switch to a different activity the first time, but it doesn't seem to happen (or happen much less often) the second time and onwards.
Comment 5 techxgames 2019-10-17 04:37:19 UTC
At the moment this is just a hunch, but I noticed that any activity that has a slideshow enabled as a wallpaper will cause Plasma to crash, even if it's for a single monitor.

I filed bug 413068 earlier (lock screen crashes with slideshow wallpapers).  What are the chances they are related?
Comment 6 Rik Mills 2019-10-19 10:18:45 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 413018 ***