Post by @fionescu@mastodon.bsd.cafe
Anyone seen this problem on OpenBSD with KDE before? Plasmashell crashes and just leaves a black desktop. Can start apps (like konsole via Ctrl+Alt+t).
@RootMoose@bsd.cafe
@gregsie I'm out of time to work this today but I'm stuck with the startplasma-x11 stdout/error showing:
QProcess: Cannot create pipe (Too many open files)
Everything falls to crap in the log after this wrt "Failed to register with host portal" -> "Could not register app ID: App info not found" type errors which is either a red herring or useful.
I've got the base config for open files in login.conf and sysctl.conf set to ridiculously large numbers so I don't think it is a ulimit type thing? Or I'm missing something elsewhere.
Maybe turning away from it for a while will help.
@RootMoose Last year I was using KDE on Alpine and frequently when trying to close smaller pop-up windows the whole shell would crash into a no-shell black screen. Earlier this year, the crash would still happen, but most of the shell, sans wallpaper like in your case, would respawn. So KDE have actually improved in this department.
When I switched to OpenBSD this year, I told to myself: KDE? Likely never again. Likely still too unstable.
@fionescu I did have it working on 7.9 about six months. This was in a VM though so never really got properly exercised.
Re: Alpine and KDE - that's my daily on multiple machines for the last ~6 months and have never had any problems, at least not with the RX6600. the RX7800 is unstable as of kernel 7.1. Haven't found the time to try 7.2 yet.