Plasma desktop constantly crashing.

[pnunn]

Hi Guys,

I'm not sure what's going on with my laptop, but plasma desktop has been constantly crashing for the last few weeks and I'm getting a bit tired of it. It usually just restarts itself and on we go, but not always.

This happens upto once an hour. I've looked around but I can't find anything in any logs that would point me to the reason behind this. Any clues?

Ta

Peter.

[oshunluvr]

Hardware. If nothing is logging, it almost always hardware. Watch your GPU temps and see if that the cause.

[pnunn]

Ok, could be, but I'm a bit sceptical because the only thing that crashes is plasma, any apps that are running at the time carry on regardless.

Peter.

[ronw]

I've forgotten if the thread was here and/or a bug report on launchpad, but I followed a suggestion to switch to Colibri for notifications and haven't had the plasma crashes since.

[kc1di]

Hi ronw,
if you could find where you got that information and post it, it would be of help to others having the same problem. -Thanks.

[ronw]

$ sudo apt-get install colibri

Then follow the author's setup guide to turn off plasma's notifications and turn on colibri's:

http://agateau.com/projects/colibri/setup/

[kc1di]

Thank you

[pnunn]

That did the trick it seems. No crash all day. Fantastic. Thanks ronw. The version in the repo's is pretty old, but I couldn't get the source to compile anyway, so this is all good.

Thanks for the input

Peter.

[ronw]

I hadn't noticed the version. Looks like 0.3.0 was a minor update:

http://agateau.com/2013/05/15/colibri-0.3.0/

Link to his PPA with 0.3.0 at the bottom of that page.

[pnunn]

Fantastic pickup rown.. missed the ppa on that page and grabbed the source instead. Installed now and working well.

Thanks again.

Peter.