I manually save my plasma5 sessions from time to time. If I had a removable drive open in one of my konsole tabs when I save the session then konsole refuses to start on the next boot. If I then plug in and mount a usb drive and it's mounted by plasma5 with the same drive descriptor and log out and log in then the saved konsole will start. If I start xterm and start konsole from there, I can get a new konsole instance. I can't find any error messages konsole just silently refuses to start.
I'm assuming that you had cd into the removed drive? So in the ~/.config/session/konsole* file you have 'WorkingDir[$e]=nonexistancedrive' I thought this had been fix but I'll check again. If you can reproduce on your system can you post the WorkingDir line?
This is fixed in 17.04.2, is there a patch available for 16.08.02 or is it fixed in a later 16.08 version? I'll file am openSUSE bug to force an update. Going to try the official openSUSE:Leap:42.2 version again. The directory entry in ~/.config/session/konsole_10149dad0e4000148707992600000017800011_1498456552_181102 is: WorkingDir[$e]=/run/media/davepl/DAVEWDE/vending/cypress/FX3_SDK/cyusb_linux_1.0.4
(In reply to Kurt Hindenburg from comment #1) > I thought this had been fix but I'll check again. I suppose this should be fixed by https://cgit.kde.org/konsole.git/commit/?h=Applications/16.12&id=6e2d3f4e7e952a342ed91bf93d4487bd51a331ea But that's only in 16.12 (or later) and didn't get backported to 16.08...
It seems that this fix wasn't backported to Leap:42.2 and has now been rectified. https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1045914 Thanks for your help.
I suppose this can be closed then. Resolving as FIXED, as it is not really a downstream problem. It was a bug in 16.08.2 that has been fixed in later versions (16.12).