Applying Global Themes with "Desktop and Window Layout" Bug

When I try to apply a global theme with the option selected: “Desktop and Window Layout”, the screen goes black and everything disappears including icons and the panel… the only thing I can do is launching Krunner (Plasma Search) then rebooting my machine via command line or doing a forced reboot

Graphics card details?X11 or Wayland. Likely to be relevant here…
inxi -Gaz

That happened to me once during my many experiments with an old machine.
I turned it off, booted from sysrec, did a disk check, rebooted, and after
that the GUI was back and I was able to fix it.

Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 5500 vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel
    arch: Gen-8 process: Intel 14nm built: 2014-15 ports: active: eDP-1
    empty: DP-1, DP-2, HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:1616
    class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Sunplus Innovation Integrated_Webcam_HD driver: uvcvideo
    type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-1.6:4
    chip-ID: 1bcf:2b8d class-ID: 0e02
  Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.15 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.4
    compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: vesa
    alternate: fbdev,intel dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: 0
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: LG Display 0x04b1 built: 2015 res: mode: 1366x768
    hz: 60 scale: 100% (1) dpi: 112 gamma: 1.2 size: 310x174mm (12.2x6.85")
    diag: 355mm (14") ratio: 16:9 modes: 1366x768
  API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris platforms: device: 0 drv: iris
    device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: iris surfaceless: drv: iris wayland:
    drv: iris x11: drv: iris
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 24.3.4 glx-v: 1.4
    direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 5500 (BDW GT2)
    device-ID: 8086:1616 memory: 3.73 GiB unified: yes display-ID: :1.0
  API: Vulkan v: 1.4.304 layers: 1 device: 0 type: integrated-gpu name: Intel
    HD Graphics 5500 (BDW GT2) driver: N/A device-ID: 8086:1616
    surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland
  Info: Tools: api: eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
    de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor wl: wayland-info
    x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr

Would you tell me the details of the disk check ? It may be helpful to me

Ok, so you’re using Plasma Wayland. The same happens for me. Search for existing bug reports first, and if necessary raise it here:

https://bugs.kde.org/

Sorry… That was weeks ago.
Just a standard disk check: for ext4:
e2fsck -vpf -C 0 /dev/{device name}
btrfs:
btrfs check /dev/{device name}

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