Plasmashell-workspace did not start at boot time . Checking the internet I found a solution : kbuildsycoca5 --noincremental && kquitapp5 plasmashell && kstart5 plasmashell 2>/dev/null I tried it and got plasmashell back but with some troubling messages [ provided below ] [messages start] kbuildsycoca5 --noincremental kbuildsycoca5 running... kf5.kservice.sycoca: Parse error in "/home/<uname>/.config/menus/applications-merged/xdg-desktop-menu-dummy.menu" , line 1 , col 1 : "unexpected end of file" kf5.kservice.services: The desktop entry file "/opt/kde3/share/applications/kde/kresources.desktop" has Type= "Application" but also has a X-KDE-Library key. This works for now, but makes user-preference handling difficult, so support for this might be removed at some point. Consider splitting it into two desktop files. kf5.kservice.services: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/applications/org.gnome.ChromeGnomeShell.desktop" has Type= "Application" but no Exec line kf5.kservice.sycoca: Invalid Service : "/usr/share/applications/org.gnome.ChromeGnomeShell.desktop" kf5.kservice.services: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/applications/org.kde.drkonqi.desktop" has Type= "Application" but no Exec line kf5.kservice.sycoca: Invalid Service : "/usr/share/applications/org.kde.drkonqi.desktop" kf5.kservice.services: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/applications/org.kde.systemmonitor.desktop" has Type= "Application" but no Exec line kf5.kservice.sycoca: Invalid Service : "/usr/share/applications/org.kde.systemmonitor.desktop" kquitapp5 plasmashell "Application plasmashell could not be found using service org.kde.plasmashell and path /MainApplication." kstart5 plasmashell Omitting both --window and --windowclass arguments is not recommended KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/bin/plasmashell from kdeinit KCrash: Application 'plasmashell' crashing... KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/lib64/libexec/drkonqi from kdeinit Unable to start Dr. Konqi Re-raising signal for core dump handling. [ messages end ] It seems that many issues are related to some desktop type files which contain some contradictions. I checked /usr/share/applications/org.gnome.ChromeGnomeShell.desktop and it is installed by the chrome-gnome-shell . The selected a package version is 10-lp150-1.3 and does not have dependencies . I removed it with "clean up" then reinstall . The issue desktop file is identical to the one with problems . Is it any way to get those file in the correct format ? Thanks, Nick
Are you able to reproduce this in a currently supported version of Plasma, such as 5.18 (the current LTS version) or 5.21 (the latest release)? If so, please attack a backtrace of the crash. Thanks!
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This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME due to lack of needed information. For more information about our bug triaging procedures please read the wiki located here: https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Bug_triaging Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!