Hello, I have a bug but don't know how to properly report it or document it. I understand normal debugging. I was a programmer.

The problem is that when I edit Applications and change from Blender vs 1 to vs 2 and save it. Then I click to start the program and up pops a dialog in the panel saying that plasma crashed but I can't do anything. This happens anytime I change a program in the editor. If I reboot plasma then it all works fine. The only way out is the use ctrl alt backspace and sign in again. At this point the bug report is gone.

What should I do next?

Thanks.
Douglas E Knapp

Maybe state your exact Plasma version and distribution first. If your Plasma version is fairly recent (current should be 5.14.5), I suggest to check the existing bugreports to see if this has not already been reported: https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?bug_se ... ion=5.14.5
The above is a link to the currently reported crashes on all 5.14.x releases

Thanks. I will check. For info
Operating System: Manjaro Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.14.5
Qt Version: 5.12.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.54.0
Kernel Version: 4.19.16-1-MANJARO
OS Type: 64-bit
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Nvidia GTX 580
Memory: 15.6 GiB of RAM

Bug is not in the list of 23 bugs.
But I still can't say much useful. I have no debug info because I need to reboot after the bug happens. Is there some way to get it?

magick.crow wrote:Bug is not in the list of 23 bugs.
But I still can't say much useful. I have no debug info because I need to reboot after the bug happens. Is there some way to get it?

There should be a log file in /var/crash/, check there first, else you could check the various debugging suggestions in https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_an ... sh_reports

The whole reason I posted here is because that page is not relevant. It assumes that you have an app that is crashing but in this case it is KDE itself that crashes, leaving you with no way to do anything.

There is on /var/crash