plasma-discover not starting

[astrojim]

Hi All,

I've a fresh install of Kubuntu 24.04/Wayland on a laptop and Discover will not start (from menu or CLI with plasma-discover) . All other apps I've tried work fine. On the command line I get SIGINT(2), when I give up and hit Ctrl+C, but no error messages/output at all in the terminal. Any ideas?

Looks like it might be related to : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...r/+bug/2063353

Thanks in advance

Jim

[johnboy]

Same thing here

[Schwarzer Kater]

Well, if it is the bug you posted you could remove plasma-discover-backend-snap (sudo apt purge plasma-discover-backend-snap) or remove Snap completely (e.g. with the get rid of Snap script) to make Discover work again.
I could not recreate the bug once, though (Discover with two or three backends installed, X11 session, Kubuntu 24.04 LTS & Plasma 5.27.11 / Kubuntu 22.04 LTS & Plasma 5.27.11).

I would additionally suggest to try if this also occurs in an X11 session ("A Plasma Wayland session is available for testing by installing the plasma-workspace-wayland package, but is not supported." - from the Kubuntu 24.04 LTS release notes).

[pwlinwin]

sudo apt purge plasma-discover-backend-snap

Mine wasn't working other. It stopped working after the most recent distro update. I have another thread about it. This fixed it. I had removed snap previously, and discover gets a little cranky when you do that.

Much appreciated.