SUMMARY When I open Discover and try to apply updates Discover crashes every time. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open Discover when connected to the internet 2. Just wait until it searched for updates OBSERVED RESULT Discover crashes every time EXPECTED RESULT No crash SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Discover version: 6.5.5 Operating System: KDE neon User Edition KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.22.0 Qt Version: 6.10.1 Kernel Version: 6.14.0-37-generic (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 1) If you are not connected to the internet Discover does not crash. When not connected it showed me that there are some system packages ready to be updated, but when reconnected to the internet and on research for updates Discover crashes again. It seems to crash when it's at the step for searching for updates to flatpacks. So this might be related to Bug 512960. 2) I'm trying to get a backtrace right now, but this might take some time. If you have a link to a step by step guide it could be easier for me.
Opened from terminal: plasma-discover libs QList("/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt6/plugins", "/usr/bin") org.kde.plasma.libdiscover: OdrsReviewsBackend: Fetch ratings: false org.kde.plasma.libdiscover: OdrsReviewsBackend: Error parsing ratings: "Unbekannter Fehler" "Ungültiger Wert" adding empty sources model QStandardItemModel(0x5962204ce790) looking up wrong category or too early "Games" looking up wrong category or too early "Development" ASSERT failure in getAppForInstalledRef: "app/com.github.marinm.songrec/x86_64/stable", file /workspace/build/libdiscover/backends/FlatpakBackend/FlatpakBackend.cpp, line 536 KCrash: Application 'plasma-discover' crashing... crashRecursionCounter = 2 Aborted (core dumped)
Created attachment 189004 [details] gdb backtrace Full backtrace of the crash. ) uname -r 6.14.0-37-generic ) lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Neon Description: KDE neon User Edition Release: 24.04 Codename: noble ) plasma-discover --version discover 6.5.5 ) gdb --version GNU gdb (Ubuntu 15.0.50.20240403-0ubuntu1) 15.0.50.20240403-git According to ChatGPT Discover was ended intentionally because of a "Q_ASSERT" in the FlatpakBackend. The trigger is an installed Flatpak-Ref, for that Discover can not make a FlatpakResource.
Further ChatGPT comments: The crash lies here: #10 FlatpakBackend::getAppForInstalledRef(...) at FlatpakBackend.cpp:536 and before that: ASSERT failure in getAppForInstalledRef: "app/com.github.marinm.songrec/x86_64/stable" file FlatpakBackend.cpp, line 536 qt is doing: qFatal → qAbort → abort() → SIGABRT getAppForInstalledRef() seems to expect an app-object (?) for every installed FlatpakRef that Discover knows or can create (/build?) The stack is: FlatpakBackend::listInstalledRefsForUpdate() → search() → getAppForInstalledRef() o) flatpak info com.github.marinm.songrec SongRec - An open-source, unofficial Shazam client for Linux, written in Rust. Kennung: com.github.marinm.songrec Ref: app/com.github.marinm.songrec/x86_64/stable Architektur: x86_64 Zweig: stable Version: 0.4.3 Lizenz: GPL-3.0+ Ursprung: flathub Sammlung: org.flathub.Stable Installation: system Installiert: 8,5 MB Laufzeitumgebung: org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/25.08 Sdk: org.freedesktop.Sdk/x86_64/25.08 Commit: b29611a572c18df4b127ab527367f45ab7c314476fdd10a917a76cf893ebde95 Parent: 9f91fad606bd191d6370b40d72b7c3a014caf9c907af6ffb783226a79f6f4826 Betreff: Merge pull request #9 from Fei1Yang/update-runtime (1e076ac865bc) Datum: 2025-10-12 18:17:19 +0000 o) flatpak info --show-ref com.github.marinm.songrec app/com.github.marinm.songrec/x86_64/stable
From a UX point of view, this looks like a deadlock as I can not update the system or discover by opening it (I can probably update the system via the command line, but this should not be expected from a new Linux user who may even just left Windows) I still wonder how a new user would actually do that. Because Discover crashes during startup, users have no way to recover from broken Flatpak metadata using the GUI. A safe-mode or backend-disable mechanism is missing. Something like o) plasma-discover --safe-mode that disables flatpaks, online repos and only allows local PackageKit data or a question on crash: „Discover crashed while loading Flatpak backend. Start without Flatpak support? [Yes] [No]“ would be interesting to have.