SUMMARY Playing a song with a very large embedded cover image causes plasmashell to stop working. This does not appear to be a crash — nothing shows up in coredumpctl. I tried disabling Media Player and Notifications in the system tray settings, but that didn’t help. Plasmashell runs fine when launched under gdb... To create such a file: 1. find any mp3 file 2. convert -size 6000x6000 xc:gray +noise Random big.png 3. ffmpeg -i your.mp3 -i big.png -map 0:0 -map 1:0 \ -c copy -id3v2_version 3 -metadata:s:v title="Album cover" \ -metadata:s:v comment="Cover (front)" song_with_cover.mp3 STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Play a songs with a large cover in Elisa OBSERVED RESULT plasmashell and kded6 both exit and do not automatically restart EXPECTED RESULT plasmashell works SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: macOS: (available in the Info Center app, or by running `kinfo` in a terminal window) Linux/KDE Plasma: KDE Plasma Version: KDE Frameworks Version: Qt Version: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
plasmashell started crashing for me as well recently after I added some new songs, so it seems that it affects me as well. Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20250905 KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.17.0 Qt Version: 6.9.2 Kernel Version: 6.16.1-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core Processor Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (31.3 GiB usable) Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 6600 Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Product Name: B550 GAMING X V2
(In reply to daron439 from comment #0) Thanks for the bug report. Can you please fill out this information? Thanks. > SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS > Windows: > macOS: > (available in the Info Center app, or by running `kinfo` in a terminal > window) > Linux/KDE Plasma: > KDE Plasma Version: > KDE Frameworks Version: > Qt Version:
(In reply to Robert Wolniak from comment #1) > plasmashell started crashing for me as well recently after I added some new > songs, so it seems that it affects me as well. Can you verify the size of the largest cover image in those songs? Thanks!
Operating System: Fedora Linux 42 KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.80 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.18.0 Qt Version: 6.9.1 Kernel Version: 6.15.10-200.fc42.x86_64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland I also tested in a VM running Fedora 42 (with Plasma 6.4.4), and the issue is reproducible there as well.
I got some system update a few days ago and Elisa no longer crashes plasmashell. https://openqa.opensuse.org/snapshot-changes/opensuse/Tumbleweed/diff/20250905 Could it be related to any regressions from some other packages, like Mesa drivers?
It looks like this may have been a bug in Elisa or plasmashell which looks to be fixed I can't reproduce this on a Fedora 42 VM with Plasma 6.4.5 The steps I used: - Copied an mp3 file to your.mp3 - I wasn't able to use the convert command from the original post, it got an error (below). I used a png file that was 11.5 MB I also tested with a png file that I resized with Gwenview to 6000 x 9000 px - Used the ffmpeg command to update the metadata of the mp3 file (result: song_with_cover.mp3) - Opened song_with_cover.mp3 in Elisa Result: It plays normally (it takes a moment to start), and plasmashell continues running normally The original mp3 plays normally daron439@gmail.com - are you still seeing the bug with plasma 6.4.5 and Elisa 25.08.0 ? The error from the convert command: tracey@fedora:~/Documents/test_docs$ convert -size 6000x6000 x:gray +noise Random big.png WARNING: The convert command is deprecated in IMv7, use "magick" instead of "convert" or "magick convert" convert: no window with specified ID exists 'gray': Resource temporarily unavailable @ error/xwindow.c/XImportImage/4950.
I tested again in: Arch Linux VM with 6.4.5 Fedora 42 with git-master The issue still reproduces (crash occurs in both cases). The music player doesn't matter - the issue occurs with mpv (when mpv-mpris is installed), Elisa, and Haruna. The mp3 I used: https://github.com/solopasha/kdebug509203/releases/download/latest/song_with_cover.mp3 (It was generated using this workflow: https://github.com/solopasha/kdebug509203/blob/main/.github/workflows/test.yaml)
This could be another manifestation or side effect of Bug 509192, which also seems to have something to do with album art — especially if you can make the issue stop happening by disabling the Media Player widget in your system tray.