Got a quick question. Not sure if I can file a bug report or not. After a recent fresh install of Debian 12.9 with KDE as the desktop environment(plasmashell 5.27.5), Discover keeps crashing. I’ve reinstalled discover via terminal with
sudo apt-get install --reinstall plasma-discover
I’ve pkilled the process and restarted and same issue.
I was going to submit a bug report but the back trace keeps stating the generated crash information is not useful. The exact statement is “The crash information could not be generated.”
Would anyone know the next step of what to do to either fix this or at least file a proper bug report? I’m under the impression without the back trace and proper debug symbols there’s no point to submit a bug report. I’ve even configured the notifications to a .txt file and the KNotify just states to report the error to help improve the software.
Hi! First off, thanks for wanting to file an effective bug report to help improve KDE software!
You’re right that diagnosing a crash does generally require a backtrace. The KDE Community Wiki has a really good guide on setting up your Linux installation to enable generating and retrieving backtraces using available tools: Guidelines and HOWTOs/Debugging/How to create useful crash reports - KDE Community Wiki
Debian advises users to not submit bugs upstream (Debian -- Debian BTS - reporting bugs), since Plasma 5.27.5 is out of support from KDE, and so it’s possible that the bug exists only in Debian at this point. Once you have that info pulled together, could you report the bug to Debian using the report bug utility (Debian -- Details of package reportbug in bookworm)? If necessary, the maintainer of the distribution package will then forward the bug upstream.
Hope that helps,