Bug 476739 - Welcome Center keeps opening and crashing
Summary: Welcome Center keeps opening and crashing
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: neon
Classification: KDE Neon
Component: Live/Install images (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Neon Linux
: NOR crash
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Neon Bugs
URL:
Keywords: qt6
: 476779 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2023-11-09 08:25 UTC by John
Modified: 2023-12-10 03:46 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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The Welcome Center keeps reopening (1.49 MB, image/png)
2023-11-09 08:25 UTC, John
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Description John 2023-11-09 08:25:37 UTC
Created attachment 162963 [details]
The Welcome Center keeps reopening

SUMMARY
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Welcome Center keeps opening and crashing
***


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1.  Download KDE Neon (Unstable Edition)
2. Put it on a USB flash drive and boot it
3. Wait to fully boot
4. [Optional] Complete the Welcome Center

OBSERVED RESULT
As soon as the OS boots up the there's a window:
Title:  plasmashell -- Crash Handler
Content: We are sorry, plasmashell closed unexpectedly...
And two buttons below to send automatic report and see developer information
Behind it, there's the window of the Welcome Center
You can get rid of the first window by moving it or closing it so you can have the Welcome screen in focus.
I completed the steps on it by clicking Next -> Next ... -> Finish over 10 times but, it doesn't matter, it keeps reopening.
It seems that it doesn't matter if you finish it or how many times and gave me the impression that even if you don't do any thing with it, it keeps trying to open another time.

The task bar keeps getting filled with that sad face square.



EXPECTED RESULT
No crash as soon as the OS boots up
No opening / reopening of the Welcome center if I haven't even touched it.
No reopening after I just completed it.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Plasma 6 alpha 
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: ?
KDE Frameworks Version: ?
Qt Version: ?

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
I tried boot in UEFI and non-UEFI mode.
I tried the Wayland session and it's the same behavior (BTW, with that "auto-relogin", is a pain to logout and switch to Wayland).
I tried connecting to Wi-Fi and it's the same behavior (BTW, it's very hard to connect to Wi-FI in the current conditions).
Please see the attached printscreen!

Tested: neon-unstable-20231107-1001.iso
On: Dell Inspiron 5770 - CPU: i5-8250U, iGPU: UHD 620, 8GB of RAM
No ethernet cable!

Thank you!
Comment 1 John 2023-11-09 09:29:18 UTC
I thought I can edit and add the versions later, but I forgot that I cannot edit the report, so here is the missing part:

KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.80
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.240.0
Qt Version: 6.6.0

I have now uninstalled the "plasma-welcome" package to have a bit of peace and be able to actually test something, but the task bar is still for of that sad face squares, which don't go away even after logout / login.

I tried to click on them to send the reports or what they were about but that's not possible and also they don't go away and looks like the entire row of them is flashing as if they are updated / recreated.

My noisy laptop fan is also making a lot of noise, which rarely happens in Plasma 5.27.9 on Debian as the CPU usage there in idle is between 0.5% - 5%, while here in idle is fluctuating a lot between 10% - 55%, which seems to explain all the noise from the fan.

In the process list, there seems to be a lot of "drkonqi" and "drkonqui-coredump-launcher", which I assume it explains why there are so many sad face squares on the task bar.
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2023-11-09 14:46:12 UTC
If something crashed, we need a backtrace of it so we can figure out what's going on. Can you please attach a backtrace of the crash using the coredumpctl command-line program, as detailed in https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Debugging/How_to_create_useful_crash_reports#Retrieving_a_backtrace_using_coredumpctl?

Thanks!
Comment 3 Firestar-Reimu 2023-11-10 09:06:07 UTC
*** Bug 476779 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Firestar-Reimu 2023-11-10 17:17:53 UTC
you can manage to open the konsole and

sudo apt remove welcome-center

this may be the only way of getting rid of this
Comment 5 Bug Janitor Service 2023-11-25 03:45:48 UTC
Dear Bug Submitter,

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Comment 6 Bug Janitor Service 2023-12-10 03:46:02 UTC
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.

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