KDE Plasma random crashing Tumbleweed

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I am having some issues with Plasma on two of my systems. One is Intel based, the other AMD and both use the onboard graphics. My issue has been, for some time now, that Kwin or Plasmashell will lock up where my only option is to kill plasmashell and relaunch it. Sometimes, it will not recover using that trick. I am not sure where to look to find the issue to report the bug. I do have two other systems that don’t seem to be having this same issue, they are of slightly older generation and also don’t get quite as much use.

Any help here would be greatly appreciated.

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Did you do already basic fault tracing like looking into journal?

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Outside of looking at kernel messages, no. How would you suggest I look for the appropriate information?

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Searching the journal around the time when your application freezes, looking for the term “error”, looking at all into the journal around that time…

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would this be “journalctl” or some other means?

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You can do it via terminal and “jounalctl -b” (shows all entries since last boot) or you use the graphical ways via yast (scroll down completely to Systemd-journal)…

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type or pasteDec 23 07:57:56 Sideswipe kwin_x11[3375]: kwin_core: XCB error: 152 (BadDamage), sequence: 8977, resource id: 11548624, major code: 143 (DAMAGE), minor code: 3 (Subtract)
Dec 23 07:57:57 Sideswipe kwin_x11[3375]: kwin_core: XCB error: 152 (BadDamage), sequence: 9604, resource id: 11548723, major code: 143 (DAMAGE), minor code: 3 (Subtract)
Dec 23 07:57:57 Sideswipe kwin_x11[3375]: kwin_core: XCB error: 152 (BadDamage), sequence: 9608, resource id: 11548733, major code: 143 (DAMAGE), minor code: 3 (Subtract)
Dec 23 07:59:15 Sideswipe kwin_x11[3375]: kwin_core: XCB error: 152 (BadDamage), sequence: 20708, resource id: 11550578, major code: 143 (DAMAGE), minor code: 3 (Subtract)
Dec 23 08:00:15 Sideswipe kwin_x11[3375]: kwin_core: XCB error: 152 (BadDamage), sequence: 30308, resource id: 11551509, major code: 143 (DAMAGE), minor code: 3 (Subtract)
Dec 23 08:00:16 Sideswipe kwin_x11[3375]: kwin_core: XCB error: 152 (BadDamage), sequence: 30898, resource id: 11551622, major code: 143 (DAMAGE), minor code: 3 (Subtract)
Dec 23 08:04:25 Sideswipe kwin_x11[3375]: kwin_core: XCB error: 152 (BadDamage), sequence: 60906, resource id: 11555722, major code: 143 (DAMAGE), minor code: 3 (Subtract)
Dec 23 08:04:27 Sideswipe kwin_x11[3375]: kwin_core: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 61744, resource id: 11556330, major code: 129 (SHAPE), minor code: 6 (Input)
Dec 23 08:04:34 Sideswipe kwin_x11[3375]: kwin_core: Failed to focus 0x470000c (error 8)
Dec 23 08:04:34 Sideswipe kwin_x11[3375]: kwin_core: Failed to focus 0x470000c (error 8)
Dec 23 08:04:38 Sideswipe sddm[2938]: Authentication error: "Process crashed"
Dec 23 08:04:38 Sideswipe sddm[2938]: Authentication error: "Process crashed"
Dec 23 08:04:38 Sideswipe pipewire[3312]: mod.x11-bell: X11 I/O error handler called on display :0
Dec 23 08:04:38 Sideswipe pipewire[3312]: mod.x11-bell: X11 display (:0) has encountered a fatal I/O error
Dec 23 08:04:38 Sideswipe kiod5[4988]: The X11 connection broke (error 1). Did the X11 server die?
Dec 23 08:04:38 Sideswipe kactivitymanagerd[3464]: The X11 connection broke (error 1). Did the X11 server die?
Dec 23 08:04:38 Sideswipe xdg-desktop-portal-kde[7017]: The X11 connection broke (error 1). Did the X11 server die?

I used the terminal method using the last boot. So it looks like there is some kind of error happening with the kwin_core and XCB. Not sure if Pipewire is part of the problem or just having a fit because of the errors in kwin and XCB.

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Reading through this, it looks like I’m not alone here. I am going to disable notifications for the time being as it seems to be related to that.

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=461316

I don’t know that I can really contribute to the bug reports as it seems that these fine folks are already working it.

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The two unique attributes to the computers that have the problem is having KDE Connect pipe all my phone notifications to it. I also notice that often there is a notification popup that looks all wonky. I am certain there is a connection and this will be a good test.

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I can say, so far, no desktop crashing. I do miss the notifications… maybe… actually, I find that the fewer interruptions have been quite nice. I can still look at what the notifications are. Regardless, this does need to be fixed. I don’t know that filing a bug report will be helpful at this point since it is already out there and being addressed.