How to workaround frequently crash the plasma shell, Kubuntu 16.04 on VirtualBox (5.0.30).

I constantly got a plasmashell crash with segmentation fault 11, Kubuntu 16.04 on VirtualBox (5.0.30).

screenshot: Plasmashell crash

The dialog entitled ``Plasma'' shows the next information, too (Developer Information).

Application: Plasma (plasmashell), signal: Segmentation fault
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
[Current thread is 1 (Thread 0x2afa1a0a30c0 (LWP 1913))]
...
This looked random, I found a hint at https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=363371 .
A summary is also at Frequently crash the plasmashell .

Following this hint, this is caused by the dynamic window thumbnail creation. Here is the working example of show informational Tips.

show informational Tips working example

But in my environment, I can crash when I make this informational Tips several times. Here is a workaround: disable show informational Tips. To do this, Use System settings. Workspace -- Desktop Behavior -- Workspace, and off the show informational Tips. You can see the screenshot of this window below.

Plasma setting: Off the show informational tips

Comments

Unknown said…

Thanks! This had been bugging me for some time and it is the only solution that made sense and worked!

April 12, 2017 at 1:35 AM

Unknown said…

Finally a solution to this!
Thanks a lot for sharing.

May 18, 2017 at 4:14 PM

Andres Martinez said…

This has been driving me crazy. Thank you for the solution!

June 29, 2018 at 12:09 AM

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