SUMMARY Kwin reloads when trying to launch most applications including displaying the task bar STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Try to open an application, show the task bar (mine is hidden) 2. 3. OBSERVED RESULT Screen goes black and the desktop is reset. Crash report (attached) in /var/crash EXPECTED RESULT No crash 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 Kubuntu 22.10. Didn't have this issue in Kubuntu 22.04.
Operating System: Kubuntu 25.10 KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.17.0 Qt Version: 6.9.2 Kernel Version: 6.17.0-6-generic (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 8 × Intel® Xeon® CPU E3-1230 v3 @ 3.30GHz Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15.6 GiB usable) Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
This affects 25.10, not 22.10 (apologies)
>Crash report (attached) in /var/crash There does not seem to be anything attached
It seems the report from /var/crash is too big to upload here. I've uploaded it to: https://wormhole.app/o4N0jq#px_Ajn7qAcEa4lG9CXxDcQ
I fixed this by upgrading to the latest nvidia drivers.