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Chrome 154 Crashes KDE Plasma on Kubuntu 24.04

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Executive summary

A Chrome 154 update has caused the plasmashell to crash on login for users running Kubuntu 24.04, affecting both new and existing installations.

No verified workaround yet

None of the linked reports describe a mitigation. Follow this incident to hear when one appears.

Official fix
Technical root cause

Under active investigation. No report has identified a root cause yet.

Evidence

1 report · 1 HNShow
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    HN First report
    Tell HN: Chrome 154 corrupt Fontconfig cache and crash KDE Plasma(opens Hacker News thread in a new tab)

    Posting this in case it saves someone some headache I’m running Kubuntu 24.04 after upgrading Google Chrome from 153 to 154 plasmashell began crashing on every login. It initially looked like a kernel or AMD GPU regression because the problem appeared after suspend and persisted after reboot, but after a bit of gooling it turn out it's very comman even on Fedora and is pinned post on /r/kubuntu sub https://issues.chromium.org/issues/531613219…

    by vdfs 9upvotes 0comments

Timeline

  1. First report on Hacker News thread

    Tell HN: Chrome 154 corrupt Fontconfig cache and crash KDE Plasma

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