Desktop crashes randomly

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Every day this happens. Once/day. It crashes and goes black and has that flashing cursor and then the desktop crashes and goes back to normal. But I lose everything in the process.

Here is what the log says:
16:59:06 akonadiserver: org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Control process died, exiting!
16:59:06 systemd-coredum: Process 2777 (kwin_wayland) of user 1000 dumped core.
16:59:06 kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: GPC0/PROP trap: 00000002 [RT_PITCH_OVERRUN] x = 1896, y = 122, format = 11, storage type = 0
16:54:36 kwin_wayland: kwin_libinput: Libinput: event2 - USB OPTICAL MOUSE: WARNING: log rate limit

I donā€™t have any mouse problems even if it says there is.
I am using Oracle 9.3
KDE Plasma version: 5.27.6
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.108.0
Qt Version: 5.15.9
Kernel version: 5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3.x86_64 (64-bit)

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@roy25:

What happens if, you create a new, fresh, test user and, copy your user files ā€“ not the settings ā€“ over to the new, fresh, user?

  • Youā€™ll have to export your current Kontact PIM settings and local e-Mail folders and then, import all that into the Kontact running under the new, fresh, user ā€¦

Here, not noticing your issue with the following system ā€“

Operating System: openSUSE Leap 15.5
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.9
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.103.0
Qt Version: 5.15.8
Kernel Version: 5.14.21-150500.55.44-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 Ɨ AMD Ryzen 5 3400G with Radeon Vega Graphics
Memory: 29.3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Vega 11 Graphics
Manufacturer: ASUS
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I feel Iā€™m doomed! Iā€™ve checked your specs and your KDE and kernel version is very similar to mine!
I donā€™t know how to copy over to new user? I donā€™t see how that would do anything. I do have ā€œ2 usersā€ but I did that by a mistake a couple of months ago and couldnā€™t be bothered deleting 'user 2."

I use Wayland, you donā€™t. I am afraid of using X 11 because of X session file filling up my hard drive! Doesnā€™t give me a lot of confidence!

I am disappointed how there is only 1 replyā€¦ even if I gave a donation recently. I feel depressed.

I donā€™t use Kontact or local emailā€¦

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I feel sad that I might have to consider XFCE and move on to another distro!
Help with Oracle costs $500 a year! I canā€™t afford that! But the ā€œakonadiserver problemā€ is a KDE problem because it has KDE in it! org.kde.pim.akonadiserver:

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Iā€™ve done one thing with the user ā€œsolutionā€ you told me. I made 1 administrative and one standard. Maybe something like that will make a difference? Sometimes ā€œstupid thingsā€ like that can make a difference! I know from experience!

Truth is, I donā€™t want to go to XFCE or another distro.

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Have you reported it on bugs.kde.org?

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I actually found a solution to the problem and that is to disable Akonadi via terminal.

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I was told on the bugs site that my version of KDE needs to be updated.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481108

Thanks everyone. I do appreciate it.

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The definitive explanation for disabling Akonadi is here: <https://userbase.kde.org/Akonadi#Disabling_the_Akonadi_subsystem>

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[quote=ā€œroy25, post:8, topic:10426ā€]
I was told on the bugs site that my version of KDE needs to be updated.[/quote]

LOL. Perfect. So basically Debian 12.5 + KDE is unusable. This is happening to me every day as well. This is making my recent exodus from Windows extremely problematic. You canā€™t do any serious work if all of your applications suddenly shut down once a day because you scrolled the mouse over the task bar. Looks like Iā€™m either going to have to ditch KDE or Debian.

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None of the information in either link worked to disable Akonadi. The service would be instantly restarted after the akonadi crash detector ran. The only way I could stop it was to uninstall all the KDE apps that use it and purge akonadi from the system entirely:

sudo apt purge ā€˜^.akonadi.$ā€™```

I donā€™t yet know if this will fix my crashes. Iā€™ll find out in a day or two I guess.

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I donā€™t use KDE anymore. Try ZorinOS like me. It works like a charm. Use cache memory instead of swap.

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I do thank everyone for their help when I used KDE in the past. I really do appreciate it. Thank you.

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Thanks! Iā€™ll look into it.

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OK ā€“ You were on Oracle Linux (either a GNOME of a KDE Desktop ā€“ and, targeted to professional users ā€¦ )
Now youā€™re using Zorin OS ā€“ quoting Wikipedia ā€“

heavily customized in order to help users transition from [Windows] and [macOS] easily.

And, it uses the GNOME Desktop.

  • Yes, the competition is fierce ā€“ which is actually a good thing ā€¦ :smiling_imp:
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KDE wasnā€™t official on Oracle. I followed a step by step guide online (carefully.) But yes it was originally Gnome. But Gnome is very different on ZorinOS. It looks a lot nicer ā€“ I call it Supergnome it looks so good. Iā€™m loving it after a few months. Itā€™s a shock how different it is.
I hope youā€™re not angry at me or somethingā€¦ You have that purple demon cat thing at the end of your message. I just thought it was courteous to tell people here where Iā€™ve gone desktop-wise. Iā€™ve stated in my profile to help.

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For anyone who cares, uninstalling Akonadi didnā€™t do a thing to stop the desktop crashes. KDE is going in the garbage bin.