Bug 421264 - Configuration settings in plasma-org.kde.plasma-desktop-appletsrc are silently removed under rare circumstances
Summary: Configuration settings in plasma-org.kde.plasma-desktop-appletsrc are silentl...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 427861
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 5.18.4
Platform: Kubuntu Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: David Edmundson
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Reported: 2020-05-10 08:33 UTC by Jan Rathmann
Modified: 2021-03-11 00:50 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Corrupted version of plasma-org.kde.plasma-desktop-appletsrc (8.53 KB, text/plain)
2020-05-10 08:33 UTC, Jan Rathmann
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Restored version from backup of plasma-org.kde.plasma-desktop-appletsrc (9.31 KB, text/plain)
2020-05-10 08:35 UTC, Jan Rathmann
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Diff between the two version (2.62 KB, patch)
2020-05-10 08:39 UTC, Jan Rathmann
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Description Jan Rathmann 2020-05-10 08:33:24 UTC
Created attachment 128323 [details]
Corrupted version of plasma-org.kde.plasma-desktop-appletsrc

Hello,

from time to time I see an issue where settings in ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma-desktop-appletsrc seem to get silently removed somehow without doing any configuration change related to them.

This has visibly affected pinned launchers in my panel (icon-only-task-manager) and my desktop wallpaper.

It happens the following way: Suddenly when I have logged in after boot I find the wallpaper being reseted to a default one and some of my pinned launcher icons in the panel are suddenly missing - while everything was ok when I last logged out.

This has happened the same or a very similar way for 3-4 times, with roughly 1-3 months between the incidents. Unfortunately I haven't found a way to reproduce this since from my point of view this happens "out of nowhere".

I found out that deletions in plasma-org.kde.plasma-desktop-appletsrc are responsible for the missing launchers/changed wallpaper, so I'm attaching:

- the "corrupted" version of the respective file
- the version restored from a three-day-old backup
- the diff between the two versions

While I'm reporting this bug from Kubuntu 20.04 (without backport PPA), I have also seen this on Kubuntu 19.10 with backport PPA (and maybe even 19.04).

Is there anything I can do to help debugging this issue?

Kind regards,
Jan

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Linux 5.4.0-29-generic / Plasma 5.18.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.68.0
Qt Version: 5.12.8
Comment 1 Jan Rathmann 2020-05-10 08:35:37 UTC
Created attachment 128324 [details]
Restored version from backup of plasma-org.kde.plasma-desktop-appletsrc

This is how it should be.
Comment 2 Jan Rathmann 2020-05-10 08:39:57 UTC
Created attachment 128325 [details]
Diff between the two version
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2021-03-11 00:50:55 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 427861 ***