Bug 504455

The base files cannot be removed because they are in a location that cannot be written to. However, they should be hidden if you have no local changes anymore. Can you share the output of `sudo find / -name old-overview.page`?

One thing I did notice is that we don't properly hide the page after it has been reset while the application is still running. Can you check if it still shows up if you restart system monitor?

Created attachment 181505 [details]
Resetting and hidding worked after trying a few times

(In reply to Arjen Hiemstra from comment #1)
> `sudo find / -name old-overview.page`?

This is from a different machine than the original report, but it showed the same symptoms:

~/.local/share/plasma-systemmonitor/old-overview.page
/usr/share/plasma-systemmonitor/old-overview.page

> Can you check if it still shows up if you restart system monitor?

Happened after restarting the app and full reboots.

But I noticed some serious GUI stutter, like something is choking in the background. So I thought let's check if something throws and error on the CLI, and also record it. So that got me something interesting: It failed for another 2 times and worked after the 3rd try. 

Now `~/.local/share/plasma-systemmonitor/old-overview.page` is gone too. This was the content before it got removed: https://pastebin.com/uuMRDH27

A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-systemmonitor/-/merge_requests/359

Git commit 4479f05626fe3470fe82e0e29334aeed4d12b422 by Arjen Hiemstra.
Committed on 19/05/2025 at 14:13.
Pushed by ahiemstra into branch 'master'.

page: When resetting a page that we have a new version for, remove the old one

We don't show these pages if they have no local changes, so we should
also hide them if the local changes are being removed. Otherwise one can
still have the "old" page visible until restart.

M  +5    -1    src/page/PageManager.cpp

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-systemmonitor/-/commit/4479f05626fe3470fe82e0e29334aeed4d12b422

A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-systemmonitor/-/merge_requests/362

Git commit 0ed144e25cd5c355e956121b81a54a83359b715e by Arjen Hiemstra.
Committed on 19/05/2025 at 14:38.
Pushed by ahiemstra into branch 'Plasma/6.4'.

page: When resetting a page that we have a new version for, remove the old one

We don't show these pages if they have no local changes, so we should
also hide them if the local changes are being removed. Otherwise one can
still have the "old" page visible until restart.


(cherry picked from commit 4479f05626fe3470fe82e0e29334aeed4d12b422)

Co-authored-by: Arjen Hiemstra <ahiemstra@heimr.nl>

M  +5    -1    src/page/PageManager.cpp

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-systemmonitor/-/commit/0ed144e25cd5c355e956121b81a54a83359b715e

(In reply to Schlaefer from comment #2)
> But I noticed some serious GUI stutter, like something is choking in the
> background. So I thought let's check if something throws and error on the
> CLI, and also record it. So that got me something interesting: It failed for
> another 2 times and worked after the 3rd try. 
> 
> Now `~/.local/share/plasma-systemmonitor/old-overview.page` is gone too.
> This was the content before it got removed: https://pastebin.com/uuMRDH27

One possibility is that without the above changes, the in-memory version of the page would still be written to disk on application quit, which would mean the old page would return on next startup. With the changes above it should now disappear as soon as you reset the page, which should also mean it no longer exists in memory and won't return.

So is this fixed now, Arjen? Or is there more to do?

I couldn't reproduce the original issue so I didn't mark it as resolved originally, but since the reporter also fixed it on their end, I think we can close this now.