SUMMARY After deleting app "X" through the command line, the panel and the Application launcher frezze if app "X" was favourited. May happen if you can set the application launcher to not open on favourites, but another section, and if that section had the app "X" listed. Can be tested by spamming meta. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Have app "X" in the favourites section of the application launcher 2. Uninstall app "X" through cli 3. Press meta (/your equivalent for the application launcher) right after uninstall OBSERVED RESULT The panel and or app launcher freeze EXPECTED RESULT Opening of application launcher without a freeze SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux: 6.12.1 KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.8.0 Qt Version: 6.8.1 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Happens on both x11 and wayland. Lasts less than 10 seconds on my pc. I'm writing an or, because I don't know how intertwined the panel and the application launcher are. I can't interact with the panel right after the uninstall, but I feel the app launcher by itself shouldn't freeze the whole panel, so it must be intertwined on some level.
There can sometimes be also a smaller hickup, when opening the app launcher after installing an app through the cli, even though it is not favourited.
Created attachment 176552 [details] error message
Does this still apply? I just tested this and I do not get any hang, only this error message (see attachment)
1. For me it happens across two computers, both endeavour being up to date. 2. I do not get such error message shown in your screenshot. 2.1. The only one I can get is the one i will attach, but that happens right after uninstalling and launching the app from the taskbar, so I wouldn't say they are related. 3. You mention "does this still apply", I don't neccessearly know what you mean there, since I'm running the latest stable soft. 4. I said lasts less than 10 seconds, more precisely: the hang on my systems lasts until the launcher clears the uninstalled apps icon from the list.
Created attachment 176554 [details] unknown-app
Also, this has been happening since plasma 6.0 for me, I was late to report :/
Cannot reproduce on git master, and I recall us making changes under the hood for a similar use case recently. Let's call it fixed until it's verified to come back in Plasma 6.3 or later. Thanks!
Please don't re-open bug reports with no explanation. If you find that it's not fixed for you in a particular version, please explain *specifically* how you're still able to reproduce it. Thanks.
I can *specifically* reproduce it all the time with installing or uninstalling something through the cli, kickoff/the task manager just hangs after the transaction happens and presumably has to add/remove an icon from its list
Yeah bug can you write exact steps to reproduce that I can follow? A screen recording that shows you triggering the issue would also be helpful.
Created attachment 178771 [details] freeze Sorry bout that. The video shows when i click outside of the are that kickoff has, it remains open, and it even managed to grey/white itself out showing that it is indeed non responsive. 'Show me the key' sadly won't capture meta as input, so i had to show fumbling around the desktop. Krunner and clicking outside (left or right) always automatically hides kickoff when it is running normally. I choose btop as an example because it is small, nnn will trigger it the same way, or any app that updates the listed apps in kiskoff. note on Spectacle: after 22 seconds the video starts dropping frames and after 30 the encode died, will test it more in a different issue the end would've showed that when installing the app, the same thing happens. also, when in the freeze state, hovering the favourited apps does nothing nor can i click on the desktop, bc it freezes as well
So you're installing things using `yay`, from AUR, correct? Does the same issue happen if you use `pacman` to install or uninstall things from the main repos? Does the same thing happen if you simply run `kbuildsycoca6` in a terminal window The spectacle issue is Bug 488896; you can switch to the MP4 format to work around it.
I use yay, yes, but the same freeze happens with pacman. Btop is in the extra repos, not the aur. 0) Running 'kbuildsycoca6' gives the following error: kbuildsycoca6 running... kf.service.sycoca: The menu spec file ( "" ) contains a Layout or DefaultLayout tag without the mandatory Merge tag inside. Please fix it. 1) This issue I found contains the same error message, but the fix mentioned there does nothing on my end: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/775613/kde-apps-cant-start-and-leak-memory 2) On the archwiki, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE#Configuration_related, there is a mention of this error message, but again, even when I empty the menus folder, it still freezes. 3) After the above attempts I logged out and back in, and kbuildsycoca6 lost it's error message and promptly froze my start menu and desktop when run. output: "kbuildsycoca6 running..."
I don't have an Arch system so I can't exactly test this, but it works fine for me if I use the DNF package manager on my Fedora system. The issue might be Arch-specific, or it might be some kind of setup issue on your system or your user account. To rule out the latter, can you try this again in a new clean user account? Thanks!
I tested on my spare laptop that is pretty much a base install of endeavour. I also did it with 3 and 30+ apps pinned to the favourites menu. kbuildsycoca6 froze the panel about half the tries, but installing/ uninstalling did it consistently, so it may be something with arch since I also tried with discover + flatpak, and when installing elisa (after the runtime downloads), the same freeze occurs
I tested this on git-master, Solus and was unable to. I saw no hang or error. Same result on Plasma 6.3.2, Solus - Installed Geeqie (repo), and set it as a favorite in Application Launcher - Uninstalled via command line with eopkg - Opened Application Launcher - Also tested with 010 Editor (flatpak) This looks like it is indeed an issue with how Arch packages things. Can we ask you to please raise a bug report with Arch and see what they say? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Bug_reporting_guidelines Thanks
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