Bug 425522 - Strange text in plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc
Summary: Strange text in plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Task Manager and Icons-Only Task Manager (show other bugs)
Version: 5.14.5
Platform: Debian stable Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Eike Hein
URL:
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Reported: 2020-08-18 23:06 UTC by numb3rlady
Modified: 2020-09-14 23:03 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Attachments
original file (358.39 KB, application/x-trash)
2020-08-18 23:06 UTC, numb3rlady
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Pic of bug in action (69.20 KB, image/png)
2020-08-20 04:47 UTC, numb3rlady
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plasma-org.kde.plasma,desktop-appletsrc (6.46 KB, text/plain)
2020-09-14 23:03 UTC, numb3rlady
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Description numb3rlady 2020-08-18 23:06:10 UTC
Created attachment 130987 [details]
original file

SUMMARY
The desktop panels go very, very wonky after a time when using kde-plasma. See attached image. I assume the source is a MASS of random text in the file plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc, also attached. I deleted this text and it seems fine.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Add text to plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc
2. panel becomes garbled
3. 

OBSERVED RESULT


EXPECTED RESULT


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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Nicolas Fella 2020-08-19 10:27:27 UTC
The strange text is base64 encoded image data, so that itself is not suspicious.

It seems to come from vscode somehow.

It seems to be quite large and I wasn't able to decode it to an image, so I can't rule out that something went wrong somewhere
Comment 2 Nicolas Fella 2020-08-19 10:48:16 UTC
How did you install vscode?

I cannot reproduce this by pinning vscode to the task manager. Neither the oss version, the normal version nor the flatpak version
Comment 3 numb3rlady 2020-08-20 04:47:31 UTC
Created attachment 131031 [details]
Pic of bug in action
Comment 4 numb3rlady 2020-08-20 04:49:24 UTC
I installed from .deb downloaded from the website. I am running current stable Debian. It also garbled the images of the widgets library if I right click and try to add a widget.
Comment 5 Nicolas Fella 2020-08-20 10:04:54 UTC
I don't see how the two things could be related.

What graphics driver are you running?
Comment 6 numb3rlady 2020-08-21 00:33:11 UTC
when I run 
lspci -v

it says I am running intel UHD 620 graphics with the i915 driver and module installed.

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 620 (rev 07) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. UHD Graphics 620
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 126
        Memory at ee000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        I/O ports at f000 [size=64]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: i915
        Kernel modules: i915
Comment 7 numb3rlady 2020-08-26 00:00:54 UTC
should I try the vs code bug tracking?
Comment 8 numb3rlady 2020-08-26 00:06:52 UTC
I cannot duplicate this error myself, I removed all pinned icons and repinned them and the bug doesn't reappear. It appears to be fixed with no clear resolution. I can mark it as resolved if that's OK. I'm new to submitting bugs and only went this route because I couldn't find any mentions of this bug anywhere else. Thanks.

*should I mark solved?*
Comment 9 Christoph Feck 2020-08-26 17:13:51 UTC
Thanks for the update; changing status.
Comment 10 numb3rlady 2020-09-14 23:02:59 UTC
Well, it happened again. this time I can't find any junk in plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc. (see files). I'm grepping around to see if any related files have similar gibberish as before. I'm baffled.
Comment 11 numb3rlady 2020-09-14 23:03:54 UTC
Created attachment 131662 [details]
plasma-org.kde.plasma,desktop-appletsrc