Fedora 42 Plasma KDE-Partitionmanager keeps crashing

My KDE-Partitionmanager keeps crashing.
I did a fresh installation of Fedora 42 KDE Plasma on my computer.
Now I wanted to permanently mount my backup-drive and started the Partitionmanager - that crashed.

When I start the Partitionmanager via shell I get:

daPeta@fedora:~$ LANG=C
daPeta@fedora:~$ pwd
/home/daPeta
daPeta@fedora:~$ partitionmanager
kf.coreaddons: "Could not find plugin kpmcore/"
Could not create instance of plugin   ""
unknown file system type  "dos"  on  "/dev/sda"
KCrash: Application 'partitionmanager' crashing... crashRecursionCounter = 2
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

When using parted I get:

GNU Parted 3.6
Using /dev/sda
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) print all                                                        
Model: ATA CT1000BX500SSD1 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system  Flags
 1      1049kB  1000GB  1000GB  primary  btrfs


Model: CT1000P3SSD8 (nvme)
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name                  Flags
 1      1049kB  630MB   629MB   fat32        EFI System Partition  boot, esp
 2      630MB   1704MB  1074MB  ext4                               bls_boot
 3      1704MB  1000GB  999GB   btrfs

The problem seems to be the partitiontable of /dev/sda which is displayed as: msdos
What can I do ?



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Looks like the same problem that this user reported to KDE: 503171 – KDE Partitionmanager crashes with segfault immediately on start...

It’s been marked as duplicate of this bug: 503148 – KDE Partition Manager crash on start

A merge request has been started for that (Fix a crash when filesystem==nullptr. (!63) · Merge requests · System / KPMCore · GitLab) so hopefully it will land in a KDE release soon. Fedora usually rolls KDE updates out pretty quickly.

In the meantime you could consider editing /etc/fstab manually to add the mount if you’re comfortable with that. You could also consider installing GNOME Disks - it’s called “Disks” in Discover, or “gnome-disk-utility” if using dnf from the command line. It doesn’t seem to pull a bunch of GNOME dependencies, so it should play nicely enough with KDE.

In the spirit of the internet, I’m gonna respond with “same problem here”.

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I have multiple Fedora KDE computers updated to the latest (42) update {Codenames: main, livingroom, third.}.

It seems that my main PC has KDE Partition Manager just crash after the password is put in.
I will paste in here a error report log if asked (tell me how to do it), but if it’s already well described in the guy above’s then I may not (I don’t have the knowledge necessary to understand the technicalities written there).

I have just tested livingroom’s KDE_P_M and it is just working here, and third instead I haven’t tested recently, but it should just work there too.

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I need to mount a new drive so I need it (I won’t use the Konsole, normal End Users at large don’t want to use the Konsole, and most just go spend €200 at a PC shop just to clean the dust).
I hope the issue may be solved soon.

Thank you for your assistance. It’s good to know, that a bug report already exists. I followed your hint and used “Disks” to create the mount - now my backup is running again…

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Just an update:

The problem solved itself thanks to work from above,
but I wanted to say that on my other computers KDE_P_M stopped and started working due to unknown factors, but on my main one it just didn’t work until, like, a week ago (?) when an update came out.