Bug 506068

Summary:	Plasma crashing out of nowhere on a daily basis
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Sylens <oat-lip-confront>
Component:	generic-crash	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	crash	CC:	akselmo, nate, oat-lip-confront
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	6.4.0
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	drkonqi bt2 bt3 bt4 bt5

Description Sylens 2025-06-23 18:53:27 UTC

I'm facing constant daily plasmashell crashes daily, and I don't know what is causing it, because I get no error messages. But the crash happens randomly, two-three times a day. I got this bug appearing lately, like two weeks ago, since a few major plasma updates. It sometimes happens when I try to click on the kickoff menu, or the panel menu up arrow, but sometimes it just happens on its own. Then when thsi happens, the panel disappears for a moment, and then reappears. It never happened before. I'm using CachyOS which is technically Arch. But I experienced this same issue on EndeavourOS which is also Arch.

Operating System: CachyOS Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.15.0
Qt Version: 6.9.1
Kernel Version: 6.15.3-2-cachyos (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-6500 CPU @ 3.20GHz
Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15.6 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
Manufacturer: MSI
Product Name: MS-7972
System Version: 2.0

Comment 1 Antonio Rojas 2025-06-23 19:00:44 UTC

Please post a backtrace as requested in the template.

Comment 2 Sylens 2025-06-26 14:27:57 UTC

Created attachment 182685 [details]
drkonqi

(In reply to Antonio Rojas from comment #1)
> Please post a backtrace as requested in the template.

attached

Comment 3 Sylens 2025-06-28 17:21:16 UTC

attached more backtraces

Comment 4 Sylens 2025-06-28 17:21:36 UTC

Created attachment 182764 [details]
bt2

Comment 5 Sylens 2025-06-28 17:21:49 UTC

Created attachment 182765 [details]
bt3

Comment 6 Sylens 2025-06-28 17:24:44 UTC

Created attachment 182766 [details]
bt4

Comment 7 Sylens 2025-06-28 17:24:53 UTC

Created attachment 182767 [details]
bt5

Comment 8 Sylens 2025-06-28 17:25:11 UTC

as I said, each day one or two random crash out of nowhere.

Comment 9 Nate Graham 2025-08-01 17:31:23 UTC

Unfortunately these crashes all look different. Two are the same crash deep in Qt's network code, so no KDE relation there.

One is deep in the Qt QML engine, which is also in Qt and impossible for us to debug.

One is in libQuickChartsControls, which is in KDE code, but unfortunately missing debug symbols so we can't debug it.

It seems like there may be a deeper issue on your system that's the root cause for all of these diverse crashes. If you've done any customization, I'd recommend logging into a new clean user account on the same machine and see if the issues stop. If they do, then something customized by yo is the culprit, and you'll need to figure it out.

Beyond that, I'd recommend you turn on automatic crash reporting, and we can capture the crash reports that way. This bug report is unfortunately not actionable. If you want to report more bugzilla tickets in the future, I'd recommend reading https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Issue_Reporting.

Thanks!