https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494544
Bug ID: 494544
Summary: Plasmashell freezes after any length of time (wayland,
AMD gpu, arch) | high memory use
Classification: Plasma
Product: plasmashell
Version: 6.2.0
Platform: Arch Linux
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: crash
Priority: NOR
Component: Panel
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Target Milestone: 1.0
SUMMARY
Plasmashell / the panel freezes after any significant length of time using the
desktop environment.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. login to kde plasma and use the desktop environment for any reasonable
amount of time.
2. the plasma panel will freeze after any time from a few minutes to a few
hours.
OBSERVED RESULT
- Plasma panel completely freezes and is unresponsive. additionally typing on
the desktop no longer shows krunner (so maybe more than just a panel issue)
- krunner no longer appears when typing on the desktop
- right click context menu does not appear
- memory use of plasmashell continually increases after the freeze (as of
typing this it's using 12.7GB)
- plasmashell shows no error logs.
EXPECTED RESULT
none of the above
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
OS: Arch linux (up to date as of 11th oct 2024)
KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.0 (though the issue has persisted since 6.0.x)
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.6.0
Qt Version: 6.7.3
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
problem has persisted for several months since a 6.0.x version.
attempting to "terminate" plasmashell or running "killall" or "sudo killall" on
plasmashell does nothing. running plasmashell --replace shows the following:
plasmashell --replace
kf.dbusaddons: Failed to register name 'org.kde.plasmashell' with DBUS - does
this process have permission to use the name, and do no other processes own it
already?
running the journalctl command, there are no logs at all from plasmashell when
the desktop freezes
manually running "kill" on the plasmashell process (from system monitor) will
*sometimes* fix the issue and make the panel responsive, however often when
plasmashell is restarted the panel does not appear again.
running kwin_wayland --replace and then manually killing plasmashell
consistently works to make the panel responsive again.
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