Universal Blue•2mo ago

KDE Plasma sort of crashes quite often

It usually happens after a longer use without restart or after waking the laptop out of the sleep mode. What happens? The panels and desktop icons/widgets either disappear or freeze. This means i can no longer launch new apps, re-enter minimized windows or to access the start button that is located on one of tha panels. Some info about the device: - Asus tuf gaming A15 (Nvidia rtx 4060) - Bazzite for Asus distro with KDE Plasma How can I fix it? I can either enter force reboot the device with the power button or enter the terminal using CTRL+ALT+F3 (or F2, am not sure :D) and do systemctl restart display-manager... But this kills my sessions and its really annoying and it has been happening to me for over a year. My old laptop had a different issue - it was impossible to wake up after entering sleep mode... I need help, this is becoming way too annoying and happing more often then before...

10 Replies

Dmarinas3283•2mo ago

Did this happen while watching a video on a browser? if it did this is likely the media player icon bug

𝕾𝖙𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖆•2mo ago

are you using Wallpaper engine? that's like the #1 thing that causes plasmashell to crash

LenOP•2mo ago

I tried wallpaper engine, but when it corrupted some settings i just switched back to default wallpaper so I only had wallpaper engine for a few days during this year thats why i think wallpaper engine has nothing to do with this bug I am not sure, I mean i keep a lot of tabs open, so some of them might be like youtube and stuff, but not actively playing

𝕾𝖙𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖆•2mo ago

are you on the latest version of bazzite? this bug should be fixed now

LenOP•2mo ago

I think so (if ujust update updates everything, then yeah) I should maybe also mention, that I also use Bazzite on my SteamDeck and I have never had these issues there, only with my laptops

𝕾𝖙𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖆•2mo ago

yesn't, you still need to reboot for new updates to the OS to apply

LenOP•2mo ago

I did reboot

𝕾𝖙𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖆•2mo ago

rpm-ostree status please?

LenOP•2mo ago

len@bazzite:~$ rpm-ostree status
State: idle
Deployments:
● ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-asus-nvidia-open:stable
                   Digest: sha256:0af241c95eb43c7b6c6581f58b823e4cad36fb8fb76768359ca5203dd2712931
                  Version: 42.20251011 (2025-10-11T17:41:53Z)
      RemovedBasePackages: sunshine 2025.101.215655-100.fc42
          LayeredPackages: flatpak-builder ghc git htop impressive java-25-openjdk maven pcsc-tools steghide
                           v4l-utils

  ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-asus-nvidia-open:stable
                   Digest: sha256:bd98304bedb5a2e60bb4917a353e26b35aec7bb4bb81a908396b8ede1587addd
                  Version: 42.20251002 (2025-10-02T17:18:38Z)
      RemovedBasePackages: sunshine 2025.101.215655-100.fc42
          LayeredPackages: flatpak-builder ghc git htop impressive java-25-openjdk maven pcsc-tools steghide
                           v4l-utils
len@bazzite:~$

len@bazzite:~$ rpm-ostree status
State: idle
Deployments:
● ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-asus-nvidia-open:stable
                   Digest: sha256:0af241c95eb43c7b6c6581f58b823e4cad36fb8fb76768359ca5203dd2712931
                  Version: 42.20251011 (2025-10-11T17:41:53Z)
      RemovedBasePackages: sunshine 2025.101.215655-100.fc42
          LayeredPackages: flatpak-builder ghc git htop impressive java-25-openjdk maven pcsc-tools steghide
                           v4l-utils

  ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-asus-nvidia-open:stable
                   Digest: sha256:bd98304bedb5a2e60bb4917a353e26b35aec7bb4bb81a908396b8ede1587addd
                  Version: 42.20251002 (2025-10-02T17:18:38Z)
      RemovedBasePackages: sunshine 2025.101.215655-100.fc42
          LayeredPackages: flatpak-builder ghc git htop impressive java-25-openjdk maven pcsc-tools steghide
                           v4l-utils
len@bazzite:~$

SpiritGrid•2mo ago

Just experienced that error after installing the latest updates to my system 30 minutes ago, and I have not experienced that using Bazzite over the last 2 months. I have a desktop PC with ASUS ROG Strix Z790-H Gaming WiFi and RTX 4090. I saw that the mesa drivers, some KDE components and a lot of locales got updated.

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