The KDE bar (menu, systray, window-list etc) freezes

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Hi @cefk,

In order for us, or anyone for that matter, to be able to provide assistance, more information is necessary. To that end, please see:

Please also note and heed: Forum Rules - Manjaro

Hope you manage!

:bangbang: Tip: :bangbang:

To provide terminal output, copy the text you wish to share, and paste it here, surrounded by three (3) backticks, a.k.a grave accents. Like this:

```
pasted text
```

Or three (3) tilde signs, like this:

~~~
pasted text
~~~

This will just cause it to be rendered like this:

Portaest sed
elementum
cursus nisl nisi
hendrerit ac quis
sit
adipiscing
tortor sit leo commodo.

Instead of like this:

Portaest sed elementum cursus nisl nisi hendrerit ac quis sit adipiscing tortor sit leo commodo.

Alternatively, paste the text you wish to format as terminal output, select all pasted text, and click the </> button on the taskbar. This will indent the whole pasted section with one TAB, causing it to render the same way as described above.

Thereby improving legibility and making it much easier for those trying to be of assistance.

:bangbang::bangbang: Additionally

If your language isn’t English, please prepend any and all terminal commands with LC_ALL=C. For example:

LC_ALL=C bluetoothctl

This will just cause the terminal output to be in English, making it easier to understand and debug.

Phew, withy all that said, a workaround might be to simply restart KDE instead of the whole computer.. To try, next time it happens, run the following in the terminal:

kquitapp5 plasmashell && kstart5 plasmashell > /dev/null 2>&1 & disown

This will restart KDE, but keep all your applications running.

But, as I said, that is only a workaround, not a solution. We need to find out why it’s happening. The cause, not the symptoms.

When it happens again, run the following in the terminal and provide the output heree, as described above:

journalctl --boot=0 --priority=warning..error

Or, if you’ve restarted since it happened, the command needs to be adjusted slightly:

journalctl --boot=-1 --priority=warning..error

Edit:

It might also simply be a case of Virtualbox running out of resources. I don’t know. :man_shrugging: But we might be able to tell you more with the information I requested above.

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