I noticed this maybe a week or two ago. I Fire up Journald Browser and I get the “bouncing thing by your mouse pointer” for maybe 3 or 4 seconds, and then nothing.
I’ve confirmed that this worked fine if I boot into the Live USB from the official release back in November/December of 2024. In that case, Journald Browser’s GUI pops up in less than a second.
It’s happening on a multiple systems: a 15 year old Intel box, a 1 year old AMD miniPC, and a 5 year old Lenovo laptop. All with he latest updates installed.
Here’s what I see in /var/log/messages on the Mini PC:
Jan 12 15:17:04 fedora systemd[2043]: Started app-org.kde.kjournaldbrowser@bce9a11b3ba341e38d5d5a0ab644edc8.service - Journald Browser - Journald B
rowser.
Jan 12 15:17:04 fedora wpa_supplicant[1352]: wlp2s0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-56 noise=9999 txrate=234000
Jan 12 15:17:05 fedora audit[6629]: ANOM_ABEND auid=1000 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=3 subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 pid=662
9 comm=“kjournaldbrowse” exe=“/usr/bin/kjournaldbrowser” sig=11 res=1
Jan 12 15:17:05 fedora kernel: kjournaldbrowse[6629]: segfault at 4 ip 00007fdbffa250b8 sp 00007fff25d94068 error 4 in libQt6Core.so.6.8.1[2250b8,7
fdbff801000+420000] likely on CPU 10 (core 5, socket 0)
Jan 12 15:17:05 fedora kernel: Code: 94 c0 c3 90 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 00 f3 0f 1e fa 48 8b 07 a8 01 74 0d 0f b6 c0 c1 e8 03 83 e0
01 c3 0f 1f 00 <8b> 40 04 c1 e8 03 83 e0 01 c3 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f
Jan 12 15:17:05 fedora systemd-coredump[6647]: Process 6629 (kjournaldbrowse) of user 1000 terminated abnormally with signal 11/SEGV, processing…
Jan 12 15:17:05 fedora audit: BPF prog-id=149 op=LOAD
Jan 12 15:17:05 fedora audit: BPF prog-id=150 op=LOAD
Jan 12 15:17:05 fedora audit: BPF prog-id=151 op=LOAD
Jan 12 15:17:05 fedora systemd[1]: Started systemd-coredump@1-6647-0.service - Process Core Dump (PID 6647/UID 0).
Jan 12 15:17:05 fedora audit[1]: SERVICE_START pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg=‘unit=systemd-coredu
mp@1-6647-0 comm=“systemd” exe=“/usr/lib/systemd/systemd” hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success’
This line:
Jan 12 15:17:05 fedora kernel: kjournaldbrowse[6629]: segfault at 4 ip 00007fdbffa250b8 sp 00007fff25d94068 error 4 in libQt6Core.so.6.8.1[2250b8,7
fdbff801000+420000] likely on CPU 10 (core 5, socket 0)
seems to point to something in libQt6Core.so.
And, I do recall seeing an update into some Qt stuff around the time this happened.
As in I was getting updates via Discover, and on one, I clicked the button that gives more details and it showed a bunch of things that apparently were being patched and I recall seeing “Qt” in there a lot.
I did a lot of software dev and support in my career, but not on Linux or Unix.
Anyway, to reproduce it, I literally just launch “Journald Browser”.
Searching, I found nothing. So I figured I’d ask here.
Thanks in advance.