Discover/KNewStuff works for test user but not me

Hi all,

KDE Discover doesn’t work for my user specifically. I don’t know why, or how, but it works with the test user that I made. Discover takes a while to open, then freezes but loads packagekit stuff (from pacman), and then freezes again. If I launch discover in the terminal, this is some of the output that’s absent from the test user I made:

kns error "/usr/share/knsrcfiles/servicemenu.knsrc" "Network error in backend Servicemenu: 0"
KNS error in "Kdenlive Effect Templates" : KNSCore::ErrorCode::NetworkError "Network error 0: Server stopped accepting new streams before this stream was established" QVariant(int, 0)
invalid kns backend! "/usr/share/knsrcfiles/kdenlive_effects.knsrc" because: "Network error in backend Kdenlive Effect Templates: 0"
kns error "/usr/share/knsrcfiles/kdenlive_effects.knsrc" "Network error in backend Kdenlive Effect Templates: 0"
qt.network.http2: stream 1 finished with error: "Server stopped accepting new streams before this stream was established"
KNS error in "GNOME/GTK Application Styles" : KNSCore::ErrorCode::NetworkError "Network error 0: Server stopped accepting new streams before this stream was established" QVariant(int, 0)
invalid kns backend! "/usr/share/knsrcfiles/gtk_themes.knsrc" because: "Network error in backend GNOME/GTK Application Styles: 0"
kns error "/usr/share/knsrcfiles/gtk_themes.knsrc" "Network error in backend GNOME/GTK Application Styles: 0"
qt.network.http2: stream 1 finished with error: "Connection closed"
qt.network.http2: stream 5 finished with error: "Connection closed"
qt.network.http2: stream 7 finished with error: "Connection closed"
qt.network.http2: stream 15 finished with error: "Connection closed"
qt.network.http2: stream 11 finished with error: "Connection closed"
qt.network.http2: stream 13 finished with error: "Connection closed"
qt.network.http2: stream 9 finished with error: "Connection closed"
qt.network.http2: stream 3 finished with error: "Connection closed"

if I launch discover with every other backend, it works perfectly fine:

plasma-discover --backends packagekit-backend,fwupd-backend,flatpak-backend

Would anyone happen to know where the fix is or what’s causing this?

fixed it: was because I had “detect proxy configuration automatically” on