Funny bug in KDE system settings/energy management: It's there in German, gone in English

I encountered a funny bug in KDEs system settings. This bug is only present in Manjaro. I have another machine running Fedora, where this bug can not be reproduced.

I ran Manjaro KDE with German Locale, set my energy options (among others) on first startup and noticed that after a short while some of those settings were overridden.

I opened system settings and clicked on energy management (all in German).
And as soon as I clicked, system settings would freeze and never recover.
Note, that this was not the case after first startup. But it was 100% reproducible from here on.

When I changed the language to English, the reboot from within system settings would not work. I had to force shut down. (Another minor bug that I did not investigate.)

However, once the machine booted, my system was set to English and I could access energy management options.

Very strange.

I set the system to German again, reboot again failed from within settings. After next startup the system was back to German and energy management again froze system settings never to recover.

Since I myself donā€™t mind my system being set to English, this is rather anecdotal.

Still I wanted to share this strange bug with you.

Best regards,

dt

Just noticed that reboot fails generally from within KDE after changing system language.

You might consider searching KDE for anything similar; perhaps report a bug if its warranted.

Tagging @Philm in case itā€™s something he needs to be aware of.

Cheers.

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Thank you for your answer, @soundofthunder.

I skimmed the bugtracker and havenā€™t found anything yet.
The search function and tag system is a little much at a first glance. (Also, thank you, @Aragorn for tagging this post. I thought I had done that.)

I just confirmed that rebooting after lang change does work through cli.

What about the REISUB feature?
or one of this featureā€™s:

crtl+alt+f (free memory)

Hey, @Kobold!
Itā€™s very nice of you to try to help.

However, the How To is not applicable. This is just a test system.

With German lang setting only the system settings GUI broke whenever I tried to access energy options through GUI. (But only after a whileā€¦ Which kind of hampers my overall trust.)
But everything else stayed responsive.

After GUI reboot (after lang change) the screen is black, only the cursor remains.

I didnā€™t bother starting a tty and honestly, I donā€™t care that much.
There was no chance of data loss. This whole machine is for testing. First pure AMD machine, first time Manjaro.

And of course switching two or more things at the same time is just bad and lazy testing.
I had my shot. Will go back to known good on other machine with the AMD machine. And then go on from there.

But really, thank you!

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I didnā€™t even try to kill X11ā€¦

I just thought this was funny and wanted to share. To whom it may concernā€¦

Donā€™t mind meā€¦ Iā€™m just passing byā€¦

It is good that you show this problem to otherā€™s, it helps that other german KDE userā€™s can evade it but here are no KDE Developerā€™s around.

The only stuff that happenā€™s around here when you report KDE errorā€™s, is mainly to get attention and otherā€™s who maybe show you a workaround.

The real fix is mostly created by a maintainer or a developer.

Im german too btw.
But i prefer to let my OS run in english, because it makes more sense to use it in english when all tutorials are in english and the most userā€™s are native english speakerā€¦ also the errorā€™s and logs will shown in (D)english which complicated the situation if someone looking for help. :wink:

Spoiler alert: We germanā€™s say Denglish to something that is bad translated. Because German/(D)eutsch the reason to call something Denglish.

Not sure if other non native english speakerā€™s use this jokeā€™s too.

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