Plasmashell crashes frequently

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but these references are old imho

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Rather provide:

journalctl --user --no-pager --priority=warning --grep=wayland
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thatā€™s a very long list, any suggestions to shorten it?

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Try:

journalctl --user --no-pager --priority=warning --grep=wayland --boot=-1
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still a very long list of crashdump

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journalctl --user --priority=warning --grep=wayland --boot=-1

Feb 24 23:41:47 the-beast systemd-coredump[2819]: [šŸ”•] Process 2645 (plasmashell) of user 1000 dumped core.
                                                  
                                                  Stack trace of thread 2768:
                                                  #0  0x00007fc52f6a7a2c n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x98a2c)
                                                  #1  0x00007fc52f64d1a0 raise (libc.so.6 + 0x3e1a0)
                                                  #2  0x00007fc52f6345fe abort (libc.so.6 + 0x255fe)
                                                  #3  0x00007fc52f89a41f _ZSt21__glibcxx_assert_failPKciS0_S0_ (libstdc++.so.6 + 0x9a>
                                                  #4  0x00007fc4d3fdb0c6 n/a (envcan.so + 0x70c6)
                                                  #5  0x00007fc52fdd8f0f n/a (libQt6Core.so.6 + 0x1d8f0f)
                                                  #6  0x00007fc531f8cb13 _ZN4KJob6resultEPS_NS_14QPrivateSignalE (libKF6CoreAddons.so>
                                                  #7  0x00007fc531f91edc n/a (libKF6CoreAddons.so.6 + 0x7cedc)
                                                  #8  0x00007fc52fdd8f0f n/a (libQt6Core.so.6 + 0x1d8f0f)
                                                  #9  0x00007fc52f5b5a26 n/a (libKF6KIOCore.so.6 + 0x11ca26)
                                                  #10 0x00007fc52f5ab945 n/a (libKF6KIOCore.so.6 + 0x112945)
                                                  #11 0x00007fc52f5aea94 n/a (libKF6KIOCore.so.6 + 0x115a94)
                                                  #12 0x00007fc52fdd8f0f n/a (libQt6Core.so.6 + 0x1d8f0f)
                                                  #13 0x00007fc52fdc6474 _ZN7QObject5eventEP6QEvent (libQt6Core.so.6 + 0x1c6474)
                                                  #14 0x00007fc532103380 _ZN19QApplicationPrivate13notify_helperEP7QObjectP6QEvent (l>
                                                  #15 0x00007fc52fd6bf48 _ZN16QCoreApplication15notifyInternal2EP7QObjectP6QEvent (li>
                                                  #16 0x00007fc52fd6c320 _ZN23QCoreApplicationPrivate16sendPostedEventsEP7QObjectiP11>
                                                  #17 0x00007fc530051e78 n/a (libQt6Core.so.6 + 0x451e78)
                                                  #18 0x00007fc52e97ff4d n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x5ef4d)
                                                  #19 0x00007fc52e981617 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x60617)
                                                  #20 0x00007fc52e981825 g_main_context_iteration (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x60825)
                                                  #21 0x00007fc53004fcb2 _ZN20QEventDispatcherGlib13processEventsE6QFlagsIN10QEventLo>
                                                  #22 0x00007fc52fd76cf6 _ZN10QEventLoop4execE6QFlagsINS_17ProcessEventsFlagEE (libQt>
                                                  #23 0x00007fc52fe9277e _ZN7QThread4execEv (libQt6Core.so.6 + 0x29277e)
                                                  #24 0x00007fc52ff31c7a n/a (libQt6Core.so.6 + 0x331c7a)
                                                  #25 0x00007fc52f6a597a n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x9697a)
                                                  #26 0x00007fc52f7292bc n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x11a2bc)
                                                  
                                                  Stack trace of thread 2662:
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i counted 17 coredumps of plasmashell , only pasted the first one tho

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That, unfortunately, doesnā€™t tell me muchā€¦

Andā€¦

journalctl --user --unit="*.plasmashell@*.service" --priority=warning --no-pager --boot=-1

ā€¦?

Even if itā€™s long, please provide it all, or upload it to pastebin, or some such.

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OK, I have officially run out of knowledge. Also regarding this. In short

:man_shrugging:

Sorry

:sob:

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no worries, thanks for trying, this is a strange one for sure ..
i am on the system, so it is stable and running , except this one thing lol

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It is difficult to try to troubleshoot something, if you donā€™t want to update to latest packages, or switch the display server for example. Troubleshooting within your imposed parameters is not efficient at all, good luck.

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sorry, i canā€™t copy/paste a 1.7 gig file

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One thing Iā€™ll comment on ā€¦ and it could well be a contributing factor:

(emphasis added by me).

Even with hundreds of tabs open, Iā€™m currently only seeing around 5G memory usage here. Although it starts leaking like a sieve when playing YouTube videos and requires a browser restart every so often, otherwise it will start getting really laggy & can sometimes cause e.g. a plasmashell crash.

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yeah, noticed, Firefox is leaky, but so far, when it getā€™s too much , i just restart it , it keeps the tabs for me, but even there, firefox seldom if ever gets oomd , and i know itā€™s leaking. I had memory leak issues years ago with pavocontrol , fortunately that got fixed after a while

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The crash looks like an assertion failure in envcan.so Canadian Weather - Environment Canada

So maybe a buggy plasmoid? I searched and got a suggestion it could be related to ā€˜weather canadaā€™ā€¦

Same issue with a clean USER?

Occasionally an update will render existing settings outdated, the same goes for plasmoids, so it might be prudent to apply the same measures we applied upgrading from Plasma 5 to Plasma 6 and do extensive housekeeping.

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thanks, i do use the weather widget , but from the bbc , but i would get rid of it again for the sake of experiment, hmm, interesting catch

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Environment Canada with Plasma was very crashy, but itā€™s fixed now with Plasma 6.6.

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Take a look at this:

Very simple way to create, test, remove a test user.

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I had Plasma crash on me once or twice a day. Removed the weather from task bar and it havenā€™t crashed since. Plasma 6.5.5 here.

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