Bug 1260271

Summary:	Bad report :-( plasmashell freezes or kactivitymanaged?
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Martin Kho <rh-bugzilla>
Component:	plasma-workspace	Assignee:	KDE SIG <kde-sig>
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	23	CC:	dhgutteridge, erecio, jgrulich, kde-sig, kevin, ltinkl, rdieter, than
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Description Martin Kho 2015-09-05 12:25:16 UTC

Description of problem:
This is a really bad report because I have no idea what causes plasmashell to freeze. Is it actually plasmashell or is it kactivitymanaged. In dmesg I see:

kactivitymanage[5179]: segfault at 7f8c6c3217d0 ip 00007f8c6c56a731 sp 00007ffea9810608 error 4 in libQt5Sql.so.5.5.0[7f8c6c556000+3f000]

But I doubt this has anything to do with the freezes I experience. The segfault happens even when plasmashell starts okay.

I've found a way to trigger the freezes and how to 'solve' them (mostly). See below.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
plasma-workspace-5.4.0-4.fc23.x86_64

kf5-kactivities-libs-5.13.0-1.fc23.x86_64
kactivities-libs-4.13.3-10.fc23.x86_64
kf5-kactivities-5.13.0-1.fc23.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. login
2. open Regional Settings (systemssettings) - Formats
3. select Detailed Settings
4. change all settings ( country doen't matter)
5. logout as requested and login
6. plasmashell/panel/desktop right click menu (?) are 'frozen'
To restore a working desktop
1. Logout
2. open a virtual terminal (e.g. Ctrl-Alt-F2)
3. remove from ~/.config/plasma-localerc all localization settings (except the LANG setting)
4. do the same for ~/.config/plasma-locale-settings.sh
5. return to the login screen (Ctrl-Alt-F1) and login.
Note: I've seen this failing :-(

Actual results:
Changing regional setting leads to the desktop to freeze.

Expected results:
Desktop does not freeze after changing regional settings

Additional info:
As I said this is a bad report. Not only because I have no idea what componant can be the culprit, but also I couldn't find any useful information in log files (.xsession-errors, journalctl, /var/log/Xorg.0.conf).

Btw. Is there a way I can disable/remove kactivitymanaged, so that I can better isolate this issue?

Comment 1 Martin Kho 2015-09-05 12:44:04 UTC

Hi,

This issue started happening after the big kf5-* update from Thursday, August 27.

HTH

Martin Kho

Comment 2 Martin Kho 2015-09-06 10:33:36 UTC

Hi,

Found the right component. It's - again - the digital clock who is to blame. e.g change Digital Clock Settings -> Use 24-hour Clock (default is with am/pm) to 24-hour w/o am/pm, logout/login and bingo. Btw. it makes plasmashell very unhappy cpu usage raises to 100%. Changing the setting back to it's default - edit in file plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc variable use24hFormat= 2 -> 1- solves the issue.

HTH

Martin Kho

Comment 3 David H. Gutteridge 2016-01-09 02:36:07 UTC

I've also encountered this issue recently, soon (but not immediately) after upgrading from kf5 5.17 to 5.18:

[67608.045320] kactivitymanage[2099]: segfault at 7f08b84ad7d0 ip 00007f08b84c3731 sp 00007fffefdc2c88 error 4 in libQt5Sql.so.5.5.1[7f08b84af000+3f000]

When it happens to me, it crashes my whole Plasma desktop and kicks me back to the GDM login screen.

I don't have any particular insights to add here. Apparently this has been reported a number of times upstream to KDE, but because no one's ever provided a backtrace, they've typically closed all the tickets (e.g. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336079). Information elsewhere suggests that this is sometimes related to an interaction with data found under the user's .cache directory, and clearing that may resolve the issue. (One reference for this being https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kactivities-kf5/+bug/1450660.)

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