Created attachment 109509 [details] Zombie notifications in action In Fedora 27 KDE, which uses plasma-workspace-5.11.3-2.fc27.x86_64 I encounter the following: I am doing some heavy rearrangement/copying operations in Dolphin, in parallel. This seems to succeed (how do I into "I'm sure it succeeded?", ah, transactions and Unix filesystems, a problem since 1969 ;-) However, the plasmashell notification widget seems to remain in the "not sure" state (see attachment). 9 jobs are marked as "in progress" and display the "Zylon Moving Eye". However these notifications never go away. No processes seem to correspond to thos (see attachment) There is neither a title, nor a log, nor any explanation about what these are (basically, "zombie notifications", innit?) There needs to be a way to debug these. PID number, thread number. What caused the notification to appear, command line, anything. And indications about what happens if I press "pause" or "stop".
Created attachment 109510 [details] There seems to be no processes corresponding to the notifications
If you want to actually debug this stuff, check out kuiserver in dbus.
kuiserver5, right? Is there actually a documentation on that? Nothing at KDE docs. I have found a blogpost: https://pindablog.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/more-on-kuiserver-and-extenders/
Ok, it happened again. It happens when you copy the contents of large directories (1000's of files) using Dolphin. At which point the world stops (even the clock gets stuck for 10 minutes...) And then you are plagued by 30 by thirty ghost notifications (maybe they are created whenever dolphin asks for overwrite confirmation?)
FWIW, we are actively working on improving the user case of copying thousands of files. E.g. see https://phabricator.kde.org/D10124 and https://phabricator.kde.org/D10085
Created attachment 111446 [details] demonstration on Arch Linux, Plasma 5.12.3, Dolphin 17.12.3 It just happened on my Arch Linux (Plasma 5.12.3, Dolphin 17.12.3) after I moved hundreds of jpg files to another partition.
*** Bug 383932 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Possibly duplicate of this bug https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=363357 + cannot reproduce it currently
Thanks for the report David. Now that both differentials have been merged can this be retested to confirm if the issue is resolved or needs further work, thanks.
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My personal experience is that I am no longer experiencing this bug
Thanks. This isn't a super-actionable bug so let's call it fixed and re-open or file a new one if it happens again.