https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470081
Bug ID: 470081
Summary: Desktop not loading after reboot, apps not starting,
dmesg full of "comm: plasmashell, not enough memory
for the allocation"
Classification: Plasma
Product: plasmashell
Version: 5.27.5
Platform: Archlinux
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: crash
Priority: NOR
Component: Startup process
Assignee: plasma-b...@kde.org
Reporter: i...@fdossena.com
CC: k...@davidedmundson.co.uk
Target Milestone: 1.0
SUMMARY
This issue has been happening to me every few months for almost 2 years now and
now it finally annoyed me enough to report it.
Every now and then, after a reboot, all my desktop icons are gone, I can't
launch any application from plasmashell, and dozens of GB of RAM are being used
by it.
When it happens, dmesg shows a lot of out of memory errors and restaring
plasmashell has no effect:
```
comm: plasmashell, not enough memory for the allocation
```
To fix this I have no choice but to delete
`~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc` and restart plasmashell,
which resets all my desktop icons, the widgets, and the taskbar to their
defaults, then the issue happens again after a few weeks, sometimes a few
months.
I took a look at my `~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc` file
before deleting it and it had a line with almost 2 MILLION characters in the
ScreenMapping section, with a really long list of files that have been on my
desktop at some point (either directly or in a subdirectory) and aren't there
anymore. I can't upload this file for privacy reasons unfortunately.
This issue has happened to me on different distros and KDE versions over the
years, not just arch, so it's either me doing something wrong or a plasmashell
bug.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Arch Linux amd64, Kernel 6.3.2
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.5 from official repos
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.106.0 from official repos
Qt Version: 5.15.9 from official repos
Graphics Platform: X11
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