Plasma crashes in 15.04

[David Lang]

I get a similar thing when I start firefox, it starts loading all the pages and 
then things crash and I end up back at the login screen

I upgraded to the 5.3 ppa and it still happens.

David Lang

On Thu, 30 Apr 2015, support wrote:

> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 12:45:32 +0800
> From: support <support at asiadigitalprivacy.net>
> Reply-To: Kubuntu user technical support <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> To: Kubuntu user technical support <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: Plasma crashes in 15.04
> 
> Prof Mani,
>
> I filed a similar bug report related to 5.3 (I also noted a similar
> failure in 5.2 but did not file a report), and was informed that a fix
> was identified and will be implemented in early May.  I filed it at
> bugs.kde.org and got pretty fast comms back on it.  Browsing the bugs
> data related to "plasmashell" I noted other "plasmashell" related crash
> bugs had similar backtrace profiles to the one I filed (although I lack
> the expertise to know what the backtrace info means other than
> identifying that there was a lot of the same data in the backtraces).  I
> am no expert but I think the plasma shell crash (which takes out the
> panels etc) is indeed in evidence pretty broadly and that KDE is working
> to fix it ASAP as it crops up in a lot of circumstances.  I get it [some
> % of each action taken] when adding widgets, when changing widgets, when
> activing Activities, when changing activities, when editing panels, and
> probably other actions which I don't recall offhand.
>
> I could not find your bug number in bugs.kde.org - I think this should
> be a plasmashell bug according to their classification approach if you
> haven't filed it under plasmashell already.
>
> I hope you do get a response on your bug report!
>
> Cheers
>
> On 30/04/2015 12:33, A. Mani wrote:
>> 1. Happens with multiple window managers
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>> 2. Version both 5.2, 5.3
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>> 3. Kubuntu-15.04
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>> 4. Also tried to change database of Akonadi - does not help.
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>> 5. Filed bug : [Bug 1450271] [NEW] Plasma crashes in Kubuntu 15.04
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>> initially there was a plasma crash and all of menu, wallpaper, panel
>> were not displayed - though applications had no problems
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>> crash report was with
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>> #kcmshell4 akonadi
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>> Best
>>
>> A. Mani
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>>
>> Prof(Miss) A. Mani
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