Since the stable update of 2020-11-04; the problem of a kickstart appeared again in the menu, this kickstart interrupts the use of the menu, with a message that says: “Applications updated.”
I exhausted all my previous tricks that allowed me to correct it, delete the folders:
/home/abc/.local/share/applications
/home/abc/.local/share/flatpak
This problem is repeated in 2 PCs, one with nvidia graphics card and one with intel.
I found some tricks but no luck
kbuildsycoca5 --noincremental
I ran this at home but nothing was fixed, even here at work.
And I see that this file is being recreated each time I try to check the kickstart menu
I’ll try something to delete/rename this ksycoca5 restart and check is something changes. (and report back)
In this, my office PC, got this info:
mhwd --listinstalled
> Installed PCI configs:
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NAME VERSION FREEDRIVER TYPE
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video-linux 2018.05.04 true PCI
network-r8168 2016.04.20 true PCI
Thanks for any help to fix this issue. Regards
Edit #1. Also dolphin is behaving strangely, very slow it gets stuck on things that before … configure, assign applications to open files.
Now, all I have left is the next test:
Exit my session, from a terminal rename the folders: .local, .config and I think also delete .cache; and so try to find the culprit. I will have to spend hours reconfiguring my profile 
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2020/11/26. I disable all the animations (taskbar, plasma) I got a more responsive system, but the original loop issue persist. I think that I need to recreate my user profile… but don’t have time at this moment.
On past monday, I see a “recursive warning” in the log, then I edit the file :
/usr/share/plasma/shells/org.kde.plasma.desktop/contents/views/Desktop.qml
And return the “old” line of code that was changed recently:
mainItem: Loader {
id: sidePanelStack
asynchronous: true
width: item ? item.width: 0
height: 1000 //start with some arbitrary height, will be changed from onVisibleChanged
//height: containment ? containment.availableScreenRect.height - sidePanel.margins.top - sidePanel.margins.bottom : 1000
state: "closed"
