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Checking coredumpctl, I've gotten two plasmashell segfaults in the past 4 months, and recall hangs and crashes happening more often in the past (especially under NVIDIA drivers). Additionally plasmashell has hung a few times and/or kwin terminated unexpectedly, though I think this is a Mesa bug (https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/zbux1i/where_would_i_s..., https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/7674) or amdgpu kernel bug (I've had multiple GPU driver hangs and unusable screens on sleep-wake, usually preceded by kwin dying in the same session).


I also checked coredumpctl, and no KDE related crashes logged there, hence validating my experience. Funnily, both my desktop systems run on NVIDIA cards w/ NVIDIA drivers, and both have uptime numbers in multiple months at minimum.

The personal desktop I used to use was regularly suspended to RAM and woke back, and my work system is on 7/24. Both are running KDE, and never misbehaved. They are not lightly used systems either. Also both installations use KDE extensively. Akonadi, Baloo, KIO, etc. are regularly used.

At the end of the day, this is strange.




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