Recent Update breaks Plasma 6

I’m unable to do anything after updating the system to 6.1.5 update after which upon rebooting I’m only able to login and see the desktop open the application launcher but when I try to open any apps/setting either from the panel or launcher I get this

Im only able to boot the system and force shutdown
Relevant info of the system
Cachy Os Plasma 6
Wayland
Asus Vivobook Laptop with Intel i3 1220P + intel integrated gpu

Similar issues on fedora kde and openSUSE kde so seems to be KDE issue

also kali kde on wayland broke so have to use x11

could you try if it is working on x11 so if it is then it is kde/wayland issue

unfortunately same result on x11

Kinda unrelated to cachyos reminds me what happened to gnome on fedora when i updated the kernel with plugins

Is there any way to fix it or should I do a reinstall instead

Seen posts for 6.2 beta fixing lot of stuff tho bot sure where and how to get beta or does aur or cachy offer beta repo

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Official_repositories#kde-unstable

Use Btrfs snapper and install grub-btrfs-snapper package ( it helps in case of a bad update it allows you to select a recent working state and boot up from it )

I’m such a sucker…LOL
I bit the bullet for plasma-unstable (KDE)
All looks pretty darn good so far, everything seems to work at a glance.

DE: KDE Plasma 6.1.90
WM: KWin (Wayland)
Terminal: konsole 24.8.1

And X11 is also good on my end.

❯ nvidia-smi
Thu Sep 12 17:44:03 2024       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 560.35.03              Driver Version: 560.35.03      CUDA Version: 12.6     |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id          Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |           Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                         |                        |               MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 ...    Off |   00000000:01:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| N/A   32C    P8              3W /   60W |      47MiB /   4096MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
                                                                                         
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                              |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                              GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                               Usage      |
|=========================================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A      2383      G   /usr/bin/kwin_wayland                           2MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+


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Recent Update breaks Plasma 6

A vague guess: it could be that the virtual RAM is full.
Could you please provide the output of df -h ?

Do you use Snap and/or Flatpak?

yes i was using libreoffice as a flatpak as sometime the native was having bug wherein the whole ui would be zoomed to say for example at 200% or so,
and also did a chroot using cachy-chroot and added the beta kde repo and update after the update and exiting chroot reboot to the system but no luck same as before, as for providing df -h i cleaned my current cachyos install will redo a reinstall :upside_down_face:

That seems weird. Could you run sudo cachyos-bugreport.sh?

I’m sorry to say but I did went with the reinstall the whole CachyOs route, will use the sudo cachyos-bugreport.sh in
future if it occurs again

Not the same issue, but came across this and figured out a plasma update broke krunner for me 8372ee0 seems to be a xcb issue.

Edit: For now I am going to try kde-unstable, and if there is any issue I can atleast go back to a snapshot :slight_smile:

Edit2: Works as expected and previous reply to the sddm post no longer exist in this version. One complaint, much brighter heh.

so the fix is to go unstable for now seems like current has the root cause

Im confused, so after updating to kde-unstable its fine?

For me kde unstable works as expected

Yep all good here as well.
I’m seeing the various breakage in other forums as well not just CachyOS.
Debian, Kubuntu and Neon

So there goes stable is the way to go :grin:

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Tbh since cachyos is arch based and arch linux is bleeding edge it might cause breakage