SUMMARY Sometimes Kickoff becomes broken and it never shows up afterward. The light blue square does appear on its icon but I don't actually see it. I cannot reproduce it reliably but it happens at least twice a day. Killing plasmashell process and restarting its widgets fixes it temporarily. I think other task menu widgets like "Hidden Items" is also affected but I wasn't able to confirm it yet. OBSERVED RESULT Kickoff does not show up EXPECTED RESULT It should behave normally. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: KDE Neon KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.21.0 Qt Version: 6.10.1 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION I use wayland
Created attachment 188249 [details] Recording of issue It happend again today. Last thing I did was: 1. Tried to open blender in kickoff 2. It didn't open and system showed me error in kdialog saying that it couldn't find application from path in .desktop file 3. I realized it's in ntfs drive which was not mounted 4. I opened yakuake with shortcut key (I set it to ctrl + shift +`) and ran this command: (`sudo ntfsfix -d /dev/sdc1`) 5. Tried to open kickoff to launch steam since blender is in there 6. Kickoff did not show up
When this happens, do you see any possibly relevant error messages in `journalctl --reverse`? Does this only affect kickoff, or also other panel popups (like the system tray widgets)? What graphics card are you using?
It just happened, right after booting. Things I did in order: 1. Logged in 2. Started Zen browser 3. Opened kickoff 4. Accidentally closed it 5. Tried to open it again - didn't work
(In reply to cwo from comment #2) > When this happens, do you see any possibly relevant error messages in > `journalctl --reverse`? > > Does this only affect kickoff, or also other panel popups (like the system > tray widgets)? > > What graphics card are you using? Here is snippet of journalctl. I copied from 30 seconds before I started zen browser to plasmashell restarting itself. ```md 1월 09 21:37:47 Kedete systemd[2441]: Starting plasma-plasmashell.service - KDE Plasma Workspace... 1월 09 21:37:47 Kedete systemd[2441]: plasma-plasmashell.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1. 1월 09 21:37:46 Kedete systemd[2441]: plasma-plasmashell.service: Consumed 13.109s CPU time. 1월 09 21:37:46 Kedete systemd[2441]: plasma-plasmashell.service: Failed with result 'signal'. 1월 09 21:37:46 Kedete systemd[2441]: plasma-plasmashell.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=9/KILL 1월 09 21:37:46 Kedete kded6[2665]: Registering ":1.100/StatusNotifierItem" to system tray 1월 09 21:37:46 Kedete kwin_wayland_wrapper[2597]: I2026-01-09 21:37:46.931806 kimpanel.cpp:116] Kimpanel new owner: 1월 09 21:37:43 Kedete systemd[2441]: Started app-org.kde.yakuake-2858.scope. 1월 09 21:37:33 Kedete kwin_wayland[2525]: Module 'org.kde.kwin.decoration' does not contain a module identifier directive - it cannot be protected from external registrations. 1월 09 21:37:29 Kedete env[4011]: [2] Sandbox: CanCreateUserNamespace() clone() failure: EPERM 1월 09 21:37:29 Kedete systemd[1]: Finished update-notifier-download.service - Download data for packages that failed at package install time. 1월 09 21:37:29 Kedete systemd[1]: update-notifier-download.service: Deactivated successfully. 1월 09 21:37:29 Kedete systemd[2441]: Started app-flatpak-app.zen_browser.zen-3996.scope. 1월 09 21:37:28 Kedete systemd[1]: Starting update-notifier-download.service - Download data for packages that failed at package install time... 1월 09 21:37:28 Kedete systemd[2441]: Started app-app.zen_browser.zen@3590daea3bab4f90a79d56440eca4803.service - Zen Browser. 1월 09 21:36:57 Kedete kdeconnectd[2853]: No uuids found for "00:19:01:81:67:B2" 1월 09 21:36:57 Kedete kdeconnectd[2853]: No uuids found for "34:E6:E6:C1:6F:90" 1월 09 21:36:56 Kedete systemd[1]: anacron.service: Deactivated successfully. 1월 09 21:36:56 Kedete anacron[3990]: Normal exit (0 jobs run) 1월 09 21:36:56 Kedete anacron[3990]: Anacron 2.3 started on 2026-01-09 ``` As you can see I started zen browser at "21:37:28" which is about 30 seconds after kdeconnected doing something. I believe that is when I was logging into my system and waiting for other uis to fully load in. I should've tested other widgets but I forgot about it and immediately restarted plasmashell. I will test it next time. I have GTX 1060 with nvidia official driver