Hello there!
Since approximately last week, I’ve been encountering an issue when booting up my KDE Neon install where my taskbar will get spammed with “Baloo File Extractor has crashed” notifications, as seen in the attached image.
Based on previous reporting of similar issues in other Linux distros, I attempted the following commands:
balooctl6 disable && balooctl6 purge && balooctl6 enable
The first two executed as expected - the third resulted in some odd behaviour which I’m not able to figure out.
First, it gives me:
KCrash: Application 'baloo_file_extractor' crashing... crashRecursionCounter = 2
kf.baloo: Extractor crashed
kf.idletime: Could not find any system poller plugin
qt.core.qobject.connect: QObject::connect(KAbstractIdleTimePoller, KIdleTime): invalid nullptr parameter
qt.core.qobject.connect: QObject::connect(KAbstractIdleTimePoller, KIdleTime): invalid nullptr parameter
qt.core.qobject.connect: QObject::connect: No such signal Solid::Backends::Fstab::FstabStorageAccess::repairRequested(QString) in ./src/solid/devices/frontend/storageaccess.cpp:23
qt.core.qobject.connect: QObject::connect: No such signal Solid::Backends::Fstab::FstabStorageAccess::repairDone(Solid::ErrorType, QVariant, QString) in ./src/solid/devices/frontend/storageaccess.cpp:24
This is followed by twenty or thirty (inconsistent) repetitions of:
QFont::setPixelSize: Pixel size <= 0 (-1),
and then that first code block a few times in a row.
It alternates between these two for while, and then gives me a new error:
kf.filemetadata: Could not create Extractor: "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt6/plugins/kf6/kfilemetadata/kfilemetadata_appimageextractor.so"
kf.filemetadata: "Cannot load library /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt6/plugins/kf6/kfilemetadata/kfilemetadata_appimageextractor.so: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libappimage.so.1.0: undefined symbol: _ZNKSt7__cxx1115basic_stringbufIcSt11char_traitsIcESaIcEE12_M_high_markEv"
qt.gui.imageio: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
"Error: Invalid least number of objects reading page offset hints table"
Now, while all this is going on, I’ve been watching balooctl6 monitor in a separate tab, and it seems like everything is fine from that end - it is processing files, those files are returning Ok, it’s running - but it’s still spamming out my taskbar.
The easy answer would be to just disable the notifications for crashing, since it seems like it’s still operating despite crashing, but I’d like to figure out why exactly it’s giving these errors, in case it’s a sign of some other bad stuff going on.
Thanks in advance for any help, and please let me know if there’s any other information I can provide!
