Bug 502979

Summary: after the update to fedora 42 the kde splash screen takes very long (kde plasma edition)
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Liz Lee <waynejwoww>
Component: generalAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: major CC: john.kizer, kde
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 6.3.4   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Fedora RPMs   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: journalctl while splash screen showing

Description Liz Lee 2025-04-18 19:19:44 UTC
Created attachment 180390 [details]
journalctl while splash screen showing

after the upgrade to fedora 42 (kde plasma edition) the kde splash screen, that appears immediately after the user login takes a very long time (40 seconds), because there are some problems in the background going on i guess.

the problem did not occur prior to the system upgrade.

(additional info: also the autostart apps that have been selected to autostart in the kde system settings -> autostart now take ages, about up to 2 minutes.)


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. login to user account from sddm (to a wayland session) 

Actual Results:
kde splash screen takes very long, ca. 40 seconds.

Expected Results:
kde splash screen should only show up for about 5 seconds max.


Additional Information:

Operating System: Fedora Linux 42
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.13.0
Qt Version: 6.8.2
Kernel Version: 6.14.2-300.fc42.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core Processor
Memory: 31,3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon R9 380 Series
Comment 1 Liz Lee 2025-04-20 16:57:12 UTC
ok, turns out if i "mask" the plasma-powerdevil.service with

´´´systemctl --user mask plasma-powerdevil.service´´´

the splash screen times and the autostart times are back to normal.

therefore the problem is related to this bug:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=502979
Comment 2 Liz Lee 2025-04-20 16:59:03 UTC
(In reply to Liz Lee from comment #1)
> ok, turns out if i "mask" the plasma-powerdevil.service with
> 
> ´´´systemctl --user mask plasma-powerdevil.service´´´
> 
> the splash screen times and the autostart times are back to normal.
> 
> therefore the problem is related to this bug:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=502979

that was the wrong link.

therefore the problem is related to this bug:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=502981
Comment 3 John Kizer 2025-04-21 18:33:59 UTC
Thanks for identifying that - merging these reports to keep discussion together. Thanks!

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 502981 ***