Slackware 15.0 / KDE - Plasmashell crashes intermittently when unmounting external drives

bitfuzzy · 01-07-2024, 04:08 PM

Anyone else experiencing Plasmashell crashes when unmounting external drives??

KCrash dump file contents..

Code:

Application: Plasma (plasmashell), signal: Segmentation fault

[KCrash Handler]
#4  0x00007f8ec1c1a7a0 in  () at /usr/lib64/libQt5Qml.so.5
#5  0x00007f8ec1bc4260 in  () at /usr/lib64/libQt5Qml.so.5
#6  0x00007f8ec1bc59c6 in QQmlVMEMetaObject::metaCall(QObject*, QMetaObject::Call, int, void**) () at /usr/lib64/libQt5Qml.so.5
#7  0x00007f8ec1afcd9d in  () at /usr/lib64/libQt5Qml.so.5
#8  0x00007f8e9d34e573 in  ()
#9  0x0000000000000000 in  ()
[Inferior 1 (process 10951) detached]

rizitis · 01-09-2024, 12:15 PM

check there is anything related?

Code:

cat /var/log/messages | grep plasma

try use disk utility tools to check the health of your external drives. There might be issues with the filesystem or the drives themselves that could trigger crashes when unmounting.

Also temporarily disable desktop effects to see if they might be contributing to the issue.

Code:

kwriteconfig5 --file kwinrc --group Compositing --key Enabled false

Restart Plasmashell after disabling desktop effects

Code:

kquitapp5 plasmashell

now you have black desktop but konsole is there, run:

Code:

plasmashell

wait a minute and then try to reproduce issue, if everything goes fine its a problem of desktop effect...