Hi Guys,
I’ve been, and am still sort of struggling with:
I though it was fixed, but then reality decided to throw a spanner in the works.
It would seem that plasma-plasmashell.service isn’t starting, or not starting correctly or something of the sort, because when I execute:
$ systemctl --user restart plasma-plasmashell.service
…it starts working. Yet, directly after booting it looks to be running:
$ systemctl --user status plasma-plasmashell.service
● plasma-plasmashell.service - KDE Plasma Workspace
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/plasma-plasmashell.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Tue 2024-10-15 15:12:54 SAST; 3min 46s ago
Invocation: 0fc53050460746fa8a482ba332666555
Main PID: 989 (plasmashell)
Tasks: 24 (limit: 18951)
Memory: 470.6M (peak: 487.7M)
CPU: 12.577s
CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/plasma-plasmashell.service
└─989 /usr/bin/plasmashell --no-respawn
Oct 15 15:13:07 Mirdarthos-PC plasmashell[989]: file:///home/mirdarthos/.local/share/plasma/plasmoids/com.github.k-donn.plasmoid-wunderground/contents/ui/DetailsItem.qml:139:17: Unable to assign [undefined] to QString
Oct 15 15:13:07 Mirdarthos-PC plasmashell[989]: Loading Calendar plugin HolidaysEventsPlugin(0x55c1eb54d4c0)
Oct 15 15:13:07 Mirdarthos-PC plasmashell[989]: Loading Calendar plugin PimEventsPlugin(0x55c1eb558250)
Oct 15 15:13:07 Mirdarthos-PC kioworker[1696]: qt.core.qobject.connect: QObject::connect: No such signal Solid::Backends::Fstab::FstabStorageAccess::repairRequested(QString)
Oct 15 15:13:07 Mirdarthos-PC kioworker[1696]: qt.core.qobject.connect: QObject::connect: No such signal Solid::Backends::Fstab::FstabStorageAccess::repairDone(Solid::ErrorType, QVariant, QString)
Oct 15 15:13:07 Mirdarthos-PC plasmashell[989]: org.kde.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.iec958-stereo.monitor"
Oct 15 15:13:08 Mirdarthos-PC plasmashell[989]: qml: [debug] [main.qml] Weather data changed
Oct 15 15:13:08 Mirdarthos-PC plasmashell[989]: qml: [debug] [main.qml] [pws-api.js] https://api.weather.com/v1/geocode/-25.724156/28.253234/forecast/daily/7day.json?apiKey=e1f10a1e78da46f5b10a1e78da96f525&language=en-ZA&units=m
Oct 15 15:13:08 Mirdarthos-PC plasmashell[989]: org.kde.plasma.containmentlayoutmanager: Trying to take space not available BasicAppletContainer_QMLTYPE_35_QML_78(0x55c1e4022d10, id="appletContainer", parent=0x55c1e3c69640, geometry=2537,1020 76x54)
Oct 15 15:13:08 Mirdarthos-PC plasmashell[989]: qml: [debug] [main.qml] [pws-api.js] Got new forecast data
$ ps -aux | grep plasmashell
mirdart+ 964 4.6 4.4 4685448 728324 ? Ssl 12:54 0:44 /usr/bin/plasmashell --no-respawn
mirdart+ 3838 0.0 0.0 6400 2104 pts/0 S+ 13:10 0:00 grep --color=auto --exclude-dir=.bzr --exclude-dir=CVS --exclude-dir=.git --exclude-dir=.hg --exclude-dir=.svn --exclude-dir=.idea --exclude-dir=.tox --exclude-dir=.venv --exclude-dir=venv plasmashell
Which is correct command, it seems:
$ systemctl --user cat plasma-plasmashell.service
# /usr/lib/systemd/user/plasma-plasmashell.service
[Unit]
Description=KDE Plasma Workspace
After=plasma-ksmserver.service plasma-kcminit.service
PartOf=graphical-session.target
StartLimitIntervalSec=60s
StartLimitBurst=3
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/plasmashell --no-respawn
Restart=on-failure
Type=dbus
BusName=org.kde.plasmashell
Slice=session.slice
TimeoutSec=40sec
[Install]
WantedBy=plasma-core.target
I previously did have a lot of customisations, but as far as I can tell, disabling them makes no difference.
After restarting the service, when everything’s working again:
$ systemctl --user status plasma-plasmashell.service
● plasma-plasmashell.service - KDE Plasma Workspace
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/plasma-plasmashell.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Tue 2024-10-15 13:20:47 SAST; 2min 26s ago
Invocation: 2f7fbd674e8e4926a8ed6d0fd21573d2
Main PID: 4741 (plasmashell)
Tasks: 32 (limit: 18951)
Memory: 382.3M (peak: 383.8M)
CPU: 9.394s
CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/plasma-plasmashell.service
├─4741 /usr/bin/plasmashell --no-respawn
├─4792 /usr/lib/kf6/kioworker /usr/lib/qt6/plugins/kf6/kio/desktop.so desktop "" local:/run/user/1000/plasmashelltnLamY.1.kioworker.socket
├─4831 /usr/lib/kf6/kioworker /usr/lib/qt6/plugins/kf6/kio/kio_trash.so trash "" local:/run/user/1000/plasmashellXgjtGW.2.kioworker.socket
└─4833 /usr/lib/kf6/kioworker /usr/lib/qt6/plugins/kf6/kio/tags.so tags "" local:/run/user/1000/plasmashellsAGJEw.3.kioworker.socket
Oct 15 13:20:55 Mirdarthos-PC plasmashell[4741]: kameleon enabled true
Oct 15 13:20:55 Mirdarthos-PC plasmashell[4741]: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.brightness/contents/ui/PopupDialog.qml:21:18: QML ScrollView: ScrollView only supports Flickable types as its contentItem
Oct 15 13:20:55 Mirdarthos-PC plasmashell[4741]: QQmlExpression: Expression file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.brightness/contents/ui/KeyboardColorItem.qml:26:5 depends on non-NOTIFYable properties:
Oct 15 13:20:55 Mirdarthos-PC plasmashell[4741]: KeyboardColorControl::supported
Oct 15 13:20:55 Mirdarthos-PC plasmashell[4741]: QQmlExpression: Expression file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.brightness/contents/ui/KeyboardColorItem.qml:77:21 depends on non-NOTIFYable properties:
Oct 15 13:20:55 Mirdarthos-PC plasmashell[4741]: KeyboardColorControl::enabled
Oct 15 13:20:55 Mirdarthos-PC plasmashell[4741]: QQmlExpression: Expression file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.brightness/contents/ui/KeyboardColorItem.qml:64:21 depends on non-NOTIFYable properties:
Oct 15 13:20:55 Mirdarthos-PC plasmashell[4741]: KeyboardColorControl::enabled
Oct 15 13:20:55 Mirdarthos-PC plasmashell[4741]: qrc:/qt/qml/org/kde/plasma/components/ScrollView.qml:31:9: QML WheelHandler: target must be a QQuickFlickable
Oct 15 13:20:55 Mirdarthos-PC plasmashell[4741]: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.brightness/contents/ui/KeyboardColorItem.qml:67:21: QML Connections: Implicitly defined onFoo properties in Connections are deprecated. Use this syntax instead: function onFoo(<arguments>) { ... }
I’ve tested a new user, and it works, so it’s obviously just me missing something.
Obligatory inxi -Farz:
System:
Kernel: 6.6.54-2-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
clocksource: tsc avail: acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.6.54-2-MANJARO
root=UUID=4b0b1c3e-837f-4ef5-bf96-6c630c24619b rw quiet
udev.log_priority=3 modprobe.blacklist=iTCO_wdt ipv6.disable_ipv6=1
nvidia.NVreg_UsePageAttributeTable=1
nvidia.NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations=1
nvidia.NVreg_TemporaryFilePath=/var/tmp nvidia_drm.modeset=1
nvidia_drm.fbdev=1
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.1.5 tk: Qt v: N/A wm: kwin_x11 with: cairo-dock
dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: Z370 HD3 v: N/A serial: N/A
Mobo: Gigabyte model: Z370 HD3-CF serial: N/A
uuid: 03d502e0-045e-056a-9b06-650700080009 UEFI: American Megatrends v: F14
date: 11/13/2021
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i7-8700 socket: LGA1151 (U3E1) note: check bits: 64
type: MT MCP arch: Coffee Lake gen: core 8 level: v3 note: check built: 2018
process: Intel 14nm family: 6 model-id: 0x9E (158) stepping: 0xA (10)
microcode: 0xF8
Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 6 cores: 6 threads: 12 tpc: 2
smt: enabled cache: L1: 384 KiB desc: d-6x32 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2: 1.5 MiB
desc: 6x256 KiB L3: 12 MiB desc: 1x12 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/4600 base/boost: 4300/8300 scaling:
driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave volts: 1.1 V ext-clock: 100 MHz
cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 9: 800
10: 800 11: 800 12: 800 bogomips: 76831
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Vulnerabilities:
Type: gather_data_sampling mitigation: Microcode
Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT
vulnerable
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: mmio_stale_data mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: retbleed mitigation: IBRS
Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
prctl
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: IBRS; IBPB: conditional; STIBP: conditional;
RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: Not affected
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort mitigation: TSX disabled
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GM206 [GeForce GTX 960] vendor: Gigabyte driver: nvidia
v: 550.120 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 550.xx+ status: current
(as of 2024-09; EOL~2026-12-xx) arch: Maxwell code: GMxxx
process: TSMC 28nm built: 2014-2019 pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
ports: active: none off: DVI-I-1,HDMI-A-1 empty: DP-1,DVI-D-1
bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1401 class-ID: 0300
Display: unspecified server: X.Org v: 21.1.13 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.2
compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: nvidia gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch
display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 5120x1080 s-dpi: 97 s-size: 1341x283mm (52.80x11.14")
s-diag: 1371mm (53.96") monitors: <missing: xrandr>
Monitor-1: DVI-I-1 model: LG (GoldStar) ULTRAWIDE serial: <filter>
built: 2016 res: 2560x1080 dpi: 97 gamma: 1.2 size: 673x284mm (26.5x11.18")
diag: 730mm (28.8") modes: max: 2560x1080 min: 640x480
Monitor-2: HDMI-A-1 model: LG (GoldStar) ULTRAWIDE serial: <filter>
built: 2016 res: 2560x1080 dpi: 97 gamma: 1.2 size: 673x284mm (26.5x11.18")
diag: 730mm (28.8") modes: max: 2560x1080 min: 640x480
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: nvidia platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia device: 2
drv: swrast gbm: drv: nvidia surfaceless: drv: nvidia x11: drv: nvidia
inactive: wayland,device-1
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 550.120
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960/PCIe/SSE2
memory: 1.95 GiB
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.295 layers: 1 device: 0 type: discrete-gpu
name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 driver: nvidia v: 550.120 device-ID: 10de:1401
surfaces: xcb,xlib
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 200 Series PCH HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_avs bus-ID: 00:1f.3
chip-ID: 8086:a2f0 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA GM206 High Definition Audio vendor: Gigabyte
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0fba class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.6.54-2-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.2.5 status: n/a (root, process) with: wireplumber
status: active tools: pw-cli,wpctl
Server-3: PulseAudio v: 17.0 status: active (root, process)
with: pulseaudio-alsa type: plugin tools: pacat,pactl
Network:
Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: Gigabyte driver: e1000e v: kernel
port: N/A bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:15b8 class-ID: 0200
IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Info: services: NetworkManager, sshd, systemd-timesyncd
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 8.41 TiB used: 3.31 TiB (39.3%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 960 EVO 250GB
size: 232.89 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s
lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 3B7QCXE7 temp: 30.9 C
scheme: GPT
SMART: yes health: PASSED on: 212d 2h cycles: 4,015
read-units: 60,117,953 [30.7 TB] written-units: 49,703,378 [25.4 TB]
ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST4000DM000-1F2168
family: Desktop HDD.15 size: 3.64 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B
logical: 512 B sata: 3.1 speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: HDD rpm: 5900
serial: <filter> fw-rev: CC54 temp: 35 C scheme: GPT
SMART: yes state: enabled health: PASSED on: 3y 245d 1h cycles: 4324
read: 124.31 TiB written: 64.34 TiB Old-Age: UDMA CRC errors: 13567
alert: Bad cable/connection? Pre-Fail: end-to-end: 99 threshold: 99
alert: FAILING_NOW attribute: Spin_Retry_Count value: 100 worst: 100
threshold: 97
ID-3: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Seagate model: ST5000VX0011-1T317X
family: Surveillance size: 4.55 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B
logical: 512 B sata: 3.1 speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: HDD rpm: 7200
serial: <filter> fw-rev: VN02 temp: 40 C scheme: GPT
SMART: yes state: enabled health: PASSED on: 1y 333d 7h cycles: 3391
read: 80.12 TiB written: 19.49 TiB Pre-Fail: attribute: Spin_Retry_Count
value: 100 worst: 100 threshold: 97
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 224.09 GiB size: 219.52 GiB (97.96%)
used: 55.13 GiB (25.1%) fs: ext4 block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
maj-min: 259:2
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 1000 MiB size: 998 MiB (99.80%)
used: 288 KiB (0.0%) fs: vfat block-size: 512 B dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
maj-min: 259:3
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 10 (default 60) cache-pressure: 75 (default 100)
zswap: yes compressor: zstd max-pool: 20%
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 7.81 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
priority: -2 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 34.0 C mobo: 29.0 C gpu: nvidia temp: 32 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 64%
Repos:
Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1677 libs: 410 tools: pamac pm: appimage pkgs: 0
pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
Active pacman repo servers in: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
1: http://mirror.is.co.za/mirrors/manjaro.org/stable/$repo/$arch
2: http://manjaro.mirror.ac.za/stable/$repo/$arch
3: https://mirror.easyname.at/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
4: https://ftp.psnc.pl/linux/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
5: https://mirror.alwyzon.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
Info:
Memory: total: 16 GiB available: 15.55 GiB used: 5.67 GiB (36.5%)
Processes: 361 Power: uptime: 33m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep
avail: s2idle wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot,
suspend, test_resume image: 6.17 GiB services: org_kde_powerdevil,
power-profiles-daemon, upowerd Init: systemd v: 256 default: graphical
tool: systemctl
Compilers: clang: 18.1.8 gcc: 14.2.1 Shell: Sudo (sudo) v: 1.9.16
default: Zsh v: 5.9 running-in: yakuake inxi: 3.3.36
(For what it’s worth)
I’d appreciate if someone could shine some light on my F’up…
Edit:
The same is apparently true for plasma-kglobalaccel.service. After startup:
$ systemctl --user status plasma-kglobalaccel.service
● plasma-kglobalaccel.service - KDE Global Shortcuts Server
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/plasma-kglobalaccel.service; static)
Active: active (running) since Tue 2024-10-15 12:54:28 SAST; 38min ago
Invocation: 723067ab9cb74c589eeec3d9d2e9a4a2
Main PID: 977 (kglobalacceld)
Tasks: 3 (limit: 18951)
Memory: 18.4M (peak: 20.2M)
CPU: 2.985s
CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/background.slice/plasma-kglobalaccel.service
└─977 /usr/lib/kglobalacceld
Oct 15 12:54:28 Mirdarthos-PC systemd[825]: plasma-kglobalaccel.service: Main process exited, code=dumped, status=6/ABRT
Oct 15 12:54:28 Mirdarthos-PC systemd[825]: plasma-kglobalaccel.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'.
Oct 15 12:54:28 Mirdarthos-PC systemd[825]: Failed to start KDE Global Shortcuts Server.
Oct 15 12:54:28 Mirdarthos-PC systemd[825]: plasma-kglobalaccel.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1.
Oct 15 12:54:28 Mirdarthos-PC systemd[825]: Starting KDE Global Shortcuts Server...
Oct 15 12:54:28 Mirdarthos-PC systemd[825]: Started KDE Global Shortcuts Server.
Oct 15 12:54:28 Mirdarthos-PC kglobalacceld[977]: could not create a component for "bash-2.desktop"
Oct 15 12:54:29 Mirdarthos-PC kglobalacceld[977]: "applications.menu" not found in QList("/home/mirdarthos/.config/menus", "/etc/xdg/menus")
And my shortcut for running a script doesn’t work. Then
$ systemctl --user restart plasma-kglobalaccel.service
$ systemctl --user status plasma-kglobalaccel.service
● plasma-kglobalaccel.service - KDE Global Shortcuts Server
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/plasma-kglobalaccel.service; static)
Active: active (running) since Tue 2024-10-15 13:34:04 SAST; 27s ago
Invocation: c12dd3cd770a4cf2b6bb4b754591443a
Main PID: 6126 (kglobalacceld)
Tasks: 3 (limit: 18951)
Memory: 16.5M (peak: 17M)
CPU: 236ms
CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/background.slice/plasma-kglobalaccel.service
└─6126 /usr/lib/kglobalacceld
Oct 15 13:34:03 Mirdarthos-PC systemd[825]: Starting KDE Global Shortcuts Server...
Oct 15 13:34:04 Mirdarthos-PC systemd[825]: Started KDE Global Shortcuts Server.
And the shortcut starts working.
Edit #2:
Just did some more troubleshooting and just as I though, disablling my themes and extensions made no difference.
