Bug 409629 - Plasma shell freezes and/or stops rendering elements
Summary: Plasma shell freezes and/or stops rendering elements
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: general (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 5.16.2
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR major
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: David Edmundson
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Reported: 2019-07-08 19:06 UTC by S
Modified: 2021-09-01 11:56 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Opening the popup calendar widget (277.82 KB, image/png)
2019-07-08 19:07 UTC, S
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A popup notification (Firefox browser in background) (21.19 KB, image/png)
2019-07-08 19:07 UTC, S
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Notification screenshot (54.21 KB, image/png)
2019-11-10 09:48 UTC, Andrei Ivnitskii
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Description S 2019-07-08 19:06:10 UTC
Hi, I started experiencing this major bug in one of the recent Plasma/KDE/KF5 updates for openSUSE Tumbleweed (within the past week). 

Very frequently (within an hour or less) I notice that the Plama panel clock stops updating, and the App Menu and Calendar popups stop rendering (just the outline), and notification popups show black with a copy of the panel underneath. When I restart `plasmashell` it fixes it for a while, but later starts glitching again.

This is on a Thinkpad T530 laptop with integrated Intel graphics, running the X modesetting drivers (not xorg-intel driver). I tried switching the KWin compositor from X11 rendering to openGL, but it made no difference.
Comment 1 S 2019-07-08 19:07:02 UTC
Created attachment 121397 [details]
Opening the popup calendar widget
Comment 2 S 2019-07-08 19:07:33 UTC
Created attachment 121398 [details]
A popup notification (Firefox browser in background)
Comment 3 S 2019-07-08 23:58:02 UTC
Hi, I tried switching to the official Intel driver for Xorg, but it is giving me the same trouble.
Comment 4 Andrei Ivnitskii 2019-11-10 09:44:02 UTC
Same problem

Kubuntu 19.10
Plasma 5.16

Link to my screenshot https://hkar.ru/10964

I think it is not a Kwin problem, because restart Kwin doesn't help, but restart plasmashell fix this
Comment 5 Andrei Ivnitskii 2019-11-10 09:48:53 UTC
Created attachment 123819 [details]
Notification screenshot
Comment 6 S 2019-11-10 14:34:10 UTC
Although I suspect that something KDE-related was janky, but for me it turned out to be related to the kernel version:
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1140777
It started happening somewhere in the kernel 5.1.x lifecycle, and was resolved with kernel 5.2.
Comment 7 Andrei Ivnitskii 2019-11-10 14:35:39 UTC
I use kernel 5.3 and bug is still present. I think it is not kernel problem
Comment 8 Andrei Ivnitskii 2021-09-01 11:56:08 UTC
Any news? Bug is still present in Kubuntu 20.04