Hi everyone, it’s a pleasure. I’ve noticed that since September 23rd, the KDE Plasma desktop has been having trouble loading on various machines across Latin America, and the system doesn’t allow the error to be reported. [2026-09-26_13-06] [VideoCapture_20260923-202410]

:white_check_mark: It seems the problem is a Google Chrome update that is writing corrupt data to ~/.cache/fontconfig. We can fix this by removing the KaTeX fonts, like so: sudo apt purge fonts-katex

Are you using Chrome? Could this be related to these posts? [image] Background briefly shows and plasma crashes: Plasmashell version 5.27.12 Help Okay, I had upgrades today, and the reboot went without a problem. However, later I tried to lock the screen bef…

Well, I solved it by clearing the user cache: rm -rf .cache/*

Problem loading the desktop

Help

h-pine September 26, 2026, 11:28pm 2

Are you using Chrome?
Could this be related to these posts?