[RESOLVED] Problems after upgrade to Plasma 5.24

[bendy]

Has anyone else tried the upgrade to Plasma 5.24 from the Backports PPA?

I've had a bunch of issues since doing it yesterday. Firstly, it caused problems with my akonadi database (I still use kontact/kmail), which was fixed by deleting my ~/.local/share/akonadi/ directory (thanks to a tip found on the Manjaro forums).

Now I have a strange issue where Plasma apps won't start by clicking on their icons on the taskbar or launcher, and also by filetype if clicking on a file in Dolphin. This only appears after the desktop has been running for a while i.e. if I start the app immediately after logging in then it works. They will start from krunner, and the problem doesn't seem to affect non-Plasma apps like firefox of libreoffice.

Anyone else tried it?

[claydoh]

I have not experienced anything similar on my Impish desktop with 5.24, though I don't use Kontact, and haven't for many years now, due Akonadi's flakiness, and needing to reset the database somewhat regularly. After akonadi updates/upgrades, in particular.

I suspect that the Plasma upgrade itself probably was not-responsible for this, as this is updated separately from Akonadi/KDEPIM, so if you had added the PPA *before* Plasma 5.24 came out, you probably would have seen this problem happen sooner than your Plasma desktop issues, as Akonadi/kdepim were updated before Plasma 5.24 was added to the PPA.

[Snowhog]

And I'm not having any issues with Plasma 5.24.0 either. I'm not on Impish; I'm running Jammy; but like claydoh, I don't have KMail et al installed either.

[kc1di]

Plasma 5.24 is working well here also no problems to speak of. Of course I'm also using 22.04 daily which is looking very good

[bendy]

Thanks everyone for responding. Regarding akonadi and kontact, I stick with it because all my PIM data is in there and I've learned to live with and manage it's flakiness!

Yesterday brought a bunch of updates from the backports PPA, and my issues with the launcher and taskbar seem to have gone away, so fingers crossed....

[Fernando]

Yep, Amarok is giving me the error "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown" when trying to start it from taskbar. Gimp, Dolphin or Firefox work OK, though...

[claydoh]

Amarok

Amarok?

[GreyGeek]

I'm running Plasma 25.4.1 on KDE Neon and I've noticed some issues.
If any service (man-db, for example) continues loading after the desktop appears then the mouse won't activate anything I click on in the panel or the KDE Menu itself. When that service finishes the mouse works.
IF I have my headphones plugged in when I boot the sound is heard in both the headphones and from the laptop speakers. If I unplug and replug the headphones the speakers go silent, and the sound is heard only in the headphones, as it should.
There's a couple more, and one I posted to launchpad, but I don't remember what they were right now. Maybe later.