[PLASMA 5] Plasma keeps crashing on startup

[NGTHVL]

it's working fine before, then a power outage occurred on our area. I just started using kde so i dont really have much idea what to do, i tried starting it on terminal using kstart plasmashell command but to no help it just spits out error messages after plasma shell startup completed, i do have nvidia graphics driver installed and running on 2 monitors.

libkcups: 2
KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/bin/plasmashell from kdeinit
sock_file=/run/user/1000/kdeinit5__0
KCrash: crashing... crashRecursionCounter = 2
KCrash: Application Name = plasmashell path = /usr/bin pid = 7837
KCrash: Arguments: /usr/bin/plasmashell
KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexec/drkonqi from kdeinit
sock_file=/run/user/1000/kdeinit5__0
QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 8 and type 'Read', disabling...
QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 27 and type 'Read', disabling...
QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 9 and type 'Read', disabling...
Unable to start Dr. Konqi
Re-raising signal for core dump handling.

- i already did fsck and dpkg on recovery mode then purged and autoremoved then ran apt-get install kubuntu-desktop and rebooted, but it still crashes with the same error message

- i tried using the --reinstall argument and i also tried deleting cache files related to plasma using rm -rf ~/.cache/plasma* and then restarted but still with no luck

- im really trying to avoid the need to reinstall the entire thing as it took me days to set up my dev environment.

[GreyGeek]

Try renaming ~/.local/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.[widgetname] files one at a time, then restarting plasmashell with
killall plasmashell; kstart plasmashell&
It could be an old dodgy widget not properly supported in the current plasma.

P.S.- it is situations like this in which Btrfs SHINES. Had you taken a snapshot of @ and @home before, it would have taken you all of 3 minutes to roll back to a working system.

[NGTHVL]

err.. negative, i tried ls ~/.local/share/plasma but the plasmoids directory seems to be missing

[GreyGeek]

Then perhaps you haven't added any plasmoids.
I have. Here is what is in my plasmoids subdirectory.


If you haven't added any plasmoids then they can't be your problem, unless one of the system icons in the panel or system tray has gone bad. That means that perhaps your theme is broken...
https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comment...em_tray_icons/