Bug 470270

Summary: KDE plasma desktop crashes after install, KALI linux
Product: [Applications] Discover Reporter: Phoenix <phoenixstormjr>
Component: discoverAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: crash CC: aleixpol, nate
Priority: NOR Keywords: drkonqi
Version First Reported In: 5.27.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Phoenix 2023-05-25 23:01:02 UTC
Application: plasma-discover (5.27.2)
 (Compiled from sources)
Qt Version: 5.15.8
Frameworks Version: 5.103.0
Operating System: Linux 6.0.0-kali6-amd64 x86_64
Windowing System: Wayland
Distribution: Kali GNU/Linux Rolling
DrKonqi: 5.27.2 [KCrashBackend]

-- Information about the crash:
I installed kde-full using sudo apt install kde-full, on kali linux. Latest version at 5/25/2023. After install, it crashed. But it worked after the crash, just takes SUPER LONG to load..

The reporter is unsure if this crash is reproducible.

-- Backtrace:
Application: Discover (plasma-discover), signal: Segmentation fault

[KCrash Handler]
#4  0x00007fc0bec7a9ca in Category::name() const () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/plasma-discover/libDiscoverCommon.so
#5  0x00007fc0bec7e3e3 in Category::addSubcategory(QVector<Category*>&, Category*) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/plasma-discover/libDiscoverCommon.so
#6  0x00007fc0bec7ed73 in Category::addSubcategory(QVector<Category*>&, Category*) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/plasma-discover/libDiscoverCommon.so
#7  0x00007fc0bec80a47 in CategoryModel::populateCategories() () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/plasma-discover/libDiscoverCommon.so
#8  0x00007fc0bcae8f4f in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Core.so.5
#9  0x00007fc0bcaecd6a in QTimer::timeout(QTimer::QPrivateSignal) () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Core.so.5
#10 0x00007fc0bcadd50d in QObject::event(QEvent*) () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Core.so.5
#11 0x00007fc0be562fae in QApplicationPrivate::notify_helper(QObject*, QEvent*) () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Widgets.so.5
#12 0x00007fc0bcab16f8 in QCoreApplication::notifyInternal2(QObject*, QEvent*) () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Core.so.5
#13 0x00007fc0bcb08c31 in QTimerInfoList::activateTimers() () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Core.so.5
#14 0x00007fc0bcb094fc in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Core.so.5
#15 0x00007fc0bb25ceed in g_main_context_dispatch () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#16 0x00007fc0bb25d198 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#17 0x00007fc0bb25d22c in g_main_context_iteration () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#18 0x00007fc0bcb09836 in QEventDispatcherGlib::processEvents(QFlags<QEventLoop::ProcessEventsFlag>) () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Core.so.5
#19 0x00007fc0bcab017b in QEventLoop::exec(QFlags<QEventLoop::ProcessEventsFlag>) () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Core.so.5
#20 0x00007fc0bcab82d6 in QCoreApplication::exec() () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Core.so.5
#21 0x000055743dc8a2a7 in ?? ()
#22 0x00007fc0bc64618a in __libc_start_call_main (main=main@entry=0x55743dc899b0, argc=argc@entry=3, argv=argv@entry=0x7ffc08c7dde8) at ../sysdeps/nptl/libc_start_call_main.h:58
#23 0x00007fc0bc646245 in __libc_start_main_impl (main=0x55743dc899b0, argc=3, argv=0x7ffc08c7dde8, init=<optimized out>, fini=<optimized out>, rtld_fini=<optimized out>, stack_end=0x7ffc08c7ddd8) at ../csu/libc-start.c:381
#24 0x000055743dc8a811 in ?? ()
[Inferior 1 (process 2520) detached]

Reported using DrKonqi
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2023-05-31 18:42:49 UTC
I'm afraid Plasma is not supported on Kali Linux. Running everything as root is explicitly unsupported and never recommended, and will result in a million and a half other little weirdnesses like this.

If would like support from KDE for issues you encounter, I would encourage you to re-install your system with a more appropriate general-purpose Linux distro, such as one of the ones you can see at https://kde.org/distributions.

Thanks for understanding!