Plasmashell stuck in a crash loop Fedora 42

Hi there. I’m desperately asking for some help, because my computer is now unusable.

I made a an update with dnf update instead of using discover and something updated … But I don’t remember what.

And now, when I reboot, plasmashell create 20 something windows saying that it crashed.

What I have tried so far, with no results

  • switching to an older kernel
  • reinstall a fresh copy of plasma ( dnf reinstall plasma-desktop plasma-workplace)
  • keeping only one monitor
  • removing plasma related files/folder in .cache and .config

I’m running out of ideas, and google or this forum doesn’t help me anymore :sob:

dnf history list, dnf history info <number> will let you know what changed. Read the dnf5-history manual for more information.

Depending on the issue, the best place place for help are KDE places. People have reported similar issues[1][2]. Also check the bug list.

I think it’ll be helpful if they see your debug logs,


  1. Plasmashell crash at login ↩︎

  2. Help with plasmashell stuck in a crashing loop ↩︎

There are plasma shell files in ~/.local/state/plasma* that you can try deleteing as well.

There should be useful information in the user’s journal.
You can access it from using the journalctl --user command when logged in as your user.

You will want to limit the logs that you view using journalctl options line --since.
The details are in man journalctl.

Often this is a good starting point:

journalctl --user -b 0 -g plasma

FYI it’s very rare that you ever need to reinstall an RPM on a linux system.