I recently installed archlinux and KDE Plasma, ive been able to work everything out just fine but there is one issue i can’t solve: if i have an app open, i am unable to open another window of the same app, i get this issue when trying to open another Konsole window by Ctrl + Alt + T : Unit app-org.kde.konsole@ffffffffffff4fffbfffffffffffffff.service was already loaded or has a fragment file.
This happens on both X11 and Wayland. I tried to AI my way out of this and tried several fixes to no avail.
Attached is also a screenshot of ListActivities
Hi! Just to check a few points, in case it sparks something helpful:
Was this system setup using the Arch Wiki instructions, or were there AI-generated instructions involved during that process?
Is everything installed from the standard Arch repositories - ex. using the plasma-meta package for Plasma - or are there AUR packages involved?
Have any customizations been made to the .desktop launcher file for Konsole? Does the issue also occur when trying to launch a second instance of a different application, like Dolphin or Firefox?
There was AI assistance during the process, I followed the arch installation guide but there were some unexpected errors Claude helped me out of.
I have not installed anything off of AUR yet.
I have not made any customizations to the .desktop launcher (I think!)
This issue happens with ALL apps that are already open, Konsole was just the one I used to reproduce it.
Thank you for responding!!! I’ve been trying all day to fix this, I have tried restarting sddm services, removing files and rebooting, changing presets, reinstalling, updating my system. I have tried looking for any similar posts but I haven’t found anything useful. before I got off the PC chatgpt suggested it had something to do with how systemd was generating the user session I think??
I don’t exactly know the best way to dig further into it, but checking the system journal for any other clues might help? For example, if you saw the issue occur at 4:30 PM today, you could use sudo journalctl --since="2025-05-22 16:29:00" --until="2025-05-22 16:31:00" to look at the surrounding couple of minutes and see if any major errors are being reported other than the one you’re getting as a notification.
Creating a new user account, and trying it while logged in to that account, might also help distinguish if it’s a user-specific issue or something with the underlying system components.
Since my last reply i have tried reinstalling arch for a second time (i did try using a second account, and found the same error), just to encounter the error in the same way without installing or configuring anything, on a completely fresh install. Since i had no clue what i had done wrong, I decided to ditch arch and installed Kubuntu thinking this was a done issue. Only to encounter THE EXACT SAME ISSUE on a FRESH INSTALL of Kubuntu 25.04!!! My system info is below:
At this point im convinced that it is either my system being incompatible in some dumb weird way or the last version of KDE is buggy?? I have not been able to find any articles or posts about this specific issue. I really like KDE and at this point im too scared to check if this will happen in GNOME as well.
Below is another screenshot of the error when pressing ctrl + alt + T when i already have a Konsole window open. This happens with any open app. Sometimes it happens when they are working in the background so im unable to even see the only open window. Im also considering reporting it as a bug, but im still trying to fix it on my system first.
galen@Helium:~$ sudo journalctl --since="2025-05-23 21:04:00" --until="2025-05-23 21:06:00"
may 23 21:04:13 Helium rtkit-daemon[1379]: Supervising 7 threads of 4 processes of 1 users.
may 23 21:04:13 Helium rtkit-daemon[1379]: Supervising 7 threads of 4 processes of 1 users.
may 23 21:04:13 Helium kernel: [drm] scheduler comp_1.0.1 is not ready, skipping
may 23 21:04:13 Helium rtkit-daemon[1379]: Supervising 7 threads of 4 processes of 1 users.
may 23 21:04:13 Helium rtkit-daemon[1379]: Supervising 7 threads of 4 processes of 1 users.
may 23 21:04:13 Helium kernel: [drm] scheduler comp_1.0.1 is not ready, skipping
This repeats a few times until this:
may 23 21:04:13 Helium kernel: [drm] scheduler comp_1.0.1 is not ready, skipping
may 23 21:04:13 Helium kernel: audit: type=1400 audit(1748055853.167:252): apparmor="DENIED" operation="open" class="file" profile="snap.firefox.firefox" name="/sys/fs/cgroup/user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/app.slice/s>
------> may 23 21:04:34 Helium kwin_wayland_wrapper[1629]: kf.kio.gui: Failed to launch process as service: "app-org.kde.konsole@ffffffffffff4fffbfffffffffffffff.service" "org.freedesktop.systemd1.UnitExists" "Unit app-org.kde.konsole@ffff>
may 23 21:04:34 Helium plasmashell[13483]: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.notifications/contents/ui/delegates/DelegatePopup.qml:147:17: QML Body: Binding loop detected for property "width"
may 23 21:04:34 Helium plasmashell[13483]: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.notifications/contents/ui/delegates/DelegatePopup.qml:147:17: QML Body: Binding loop detected for property "width"
may 23 21:04:34 Helium kernel: [drm] scheduler comp_1.1.0 is not ready, skipping
...
-----> may 23 21:05:18 Helium kwin_wayland_wrapper[1629]: kf.kio.gui: Failed to launch process as service: "app-org.kde.konsole@ffffffffffff4fffbfffffffffffffff.service" "org.freedesktop.systemd1.UnitExists" "Unit app-org.kde.konsole@ffff>
may 23 21:05:18 Helium plasmashell[13483]: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.notifications/contents/ui/delegates/DelegatePopup.qml:147:17: QML Body: Binding loop detected for property "width"
may 23 21:05:18 Helium plasmashell[13483]: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.notifications/contents/ui/delegates/DelegatePopup.qml:147:17: QML Body: Binding loop detected for property "width"
may 23 21:05:18 Helium kernel: [drm] scheduler comp_1.0.1 is not ready, skipping
The error is easily reproducible for me and it leads me to think this is a hardware issue
