KDE Plasma kickstart issue: loop message "Applications updated."

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9:05 PM For me, recreating the profile from scratch was the solution, steps taken:

I open a terminal Ctrl-Alt-F2 with my current user (If my home/user is “mre”):

$ cd /home/
# sudo mv ./mre ./mre.bak
# mkdir ./mre
# chown mre:mre ./mre

reboot

After reboot the PC, copy carefully all the folders and settings from the previous backup home on the new one. Things like:

~/.kodi
~/.mame
~/.mozilla
~/.remmina
~/.ssh
~/.telegram
~/.thunderbird
… etc.

And much more carefully copy the content (of what you can recognize) of the following:

~/.cache
~/.local
~/.share
Check during each copy that the disgusting bug is not activated.

If the bug is reactivated, then you can probably determine the cause of the problem. From what I see, the problem seems to be related to Bauh, flatpak or appimage. Since I didn’t copy anything from your folders wherever I saw references to these.

Note: not everything will work correctly; for example: remmina is asking me for the passwords to connect… if I haven’t forgotten them, everything is solved (for me).

This is not easy, it is not fast, but after lasting +1 month with this ugly glitch, investing 1 or 2 hours is worth it.

Finally reboot to see the bug gone for now, until the KDE developers trip us up :see_no_evil: .

And if any of the KDE developers read this (I don’t think so), hopefully it will serve as a background for what they might do during each major plasma and component upgrade: reset the KDE and component configuration.

I PREFER that the plasma/desktop configuration is reseted to suffer this bug that prevents the use of KDE.

This is my solution, now I need to perform it on the PC I use at work, hopefully I will only lose the decorations I installed without losing a day or 2 hours of work.

I hope it will be useful to those like me who don’t want to leave KDE and switch to the awful gnome versions.

Regards,

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