After the signin screen, my desktop loads, then I get a black screen with an error message window. This repeats tow more times, and I end up with the error screen looking for a backtrace and submission, which I have sent in.
Creating a new user gives me a normal sign in.
I’ve tried removing all desktop and task bar widgets, make no difference.
I’m running an Aurora distro, pinned version 41 works fine.
Some journal info:
❯ systemctl --user status plasma-plasmashell.service
× plasma-plasmashell.service - KDE Plasma Workspace
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/plasma-plasmashell.service; disabled; preset: disabled)
Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/user/service.d
└─10-timeout-abort.conf
Active: failed (Result: core-dump) since Wed 2025-05-21 14:36:10 EDT; 1min 4s ago
Duration: 3.134s
Invocation: f3a767d076d145648e7c6f37c93696c4
Process: 7649 ExecStart=/usr/bin/plasmashell --no-respawn (code=dumped, signal=ABRT)
Main PID: 7649 (code=dumped, signal=ABRT)
May 21 14:36:10 aurora systemd[2666]: plasma-plasmashell.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 3.
May 21 14:36:10 aurora systemd[2666]: plasma-plasmashell.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
May 21 14:36:10 aurora systemd[2666]: plasma-plasmashell.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'.
May 21 14:36:10 aurora systemd[2666]: Failed to start plasma-plasmashell.service - KDE Plasma Workspace.
May 21 14:36:20 aurora systemd[2666]: plasma-plasmashell.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
May 21 14:36:20 aurora systemd[2666]: plasma-plasmashell.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'.
May 21 14:36:20 aurora systemd[2666]: Failed to start plasma-plasmashell.service - KDE Plasma Workspace.
May 21 14:36:24 aurora systemd[2666]: plasma-plasmashell.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
May 21 14:36:24 aurora systemd[2666]: plasma-plasmashell.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'.
May 21 14:36:24 aurora systemd[2666]: Failed to start plasma-plasmashell.service - KDE Plasma Workspace.
and:
May 21 14:33:00 aurora systemd[2666]: Failed to start plasma-plasmashell.service - KDE Plasma Workspace.
░░ Subject: A start job for unit UNIT has failed
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
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░░ A start job for unit UNIT has finished with a failure.
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░░ The job identifier is 2386 and the job result is failed.
May 21 14:33:18 aurora systemd[2666]: plasma-plasmashell.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
May 21 14:33:18 aurora systemd[2666]: plasma-plasmashell.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'.
░░ Subject: Unit failed
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
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░░ The unit UNIT has entered the 'failed' state with result 'core-dump'.
May 21 14:33:18 aurora systemd[2666]: Failed to start plasma-plasmashell.service - KDE Plasma Workspace.
░░ Subject: A start job for unit UNIT has failed
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
░░
░░ A start job for unit UNIT has finished with a failure.
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░░ The job identifier is 2427 and the job result is failed.
Not sure what to do about it.
Hardware is:
24x AMD Ryzen 9 9900x 21 core processor
64 GB Ram
Gigabyte Aorus Elite AX
Intel B580 GPU