So, I’ve discovered a few annoyances after upgrading my machine from Fedora 37 Plasma to 38 Plasma.
First, and the most important, is that kwin randomly crashes. Most of the time it is just after I first login. Problem Reporting pops up with a kioslave5 crash. I’ve tried filing a bug without success (I think I am doing something wrong). However, I did notice some recent activity on this bug (Bug 2185282).
Has anyone ran into this issue and found a solution yet?
Second, for some reason, my mouse cursor arrow changes when I hover over a different portion of a window or on a empty desktop and I don’t know how to fix it. See screenshot animated gif below behavior.
Finally, (and I just discovered this while typing this post), Dolphin is really messed up and almost unusable in its color scheme. See screenshot animated gif below behavior.
Thoughts? Solutions? Is this something that should be filed with the KDE developers?
By the way, I have an NVIDIA GPU and I wonder if that has anything to do with it.
So, the intermittent is becoming almost persistent now. KDE and/or X11 seems to be crashing almost as soon as I login. It takes close to a minute before it crashes, but it crashes. The only way to get back in is to reboot remotely via ssh. I can’t even access the system console via Ctrl-Alt-F2 or F3 or F4.
Any thoughts? Recommendations?
I’ve been looking through journalctl but there is so much to view, so far I don’t know what to look for.
I have the GeForce GTX 970.
So, ironically, the one time I have journalctl -f running remotely to view real time logs it doesn’t crash.
I’ll have to keep monitoring, I guess.
By the way, just before this time around of not crashing I completed an update and it updated a bunch of pipewire packages. Not sure if that may have fixed anything related or not.
That seems perfectly fine at present. I have the same.
Normally that is not the case but apparently the xorg packages had some updates that did not directly affect the driver.