Kubuntu Ksplashqml crashed

Question

This is related to Ksplashqml crash on startup I dont have enough reputation yet, to post an answer, so i decided to give an answer via my own question...

Yesterday, when i restarted my PC, I got an error Message: "Ksplashqml closed unexpectedly [...] Segmentation fault [...]". The same error as in the linked

System: Ubuntu 20.04 KDE-Plasma 5.18. Fish as default shell

I switched to my Laptop but after some hours, it had the same error.

After some hours of troubleshooting I switched my Display Manager to lightdm and suddenly everything worked again. Find out current DM with:

systemctl status display-manager

In my case it was sddm. Reconfigure DM to lightdm:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure sddm

I hope this is helpful.

Answer 1

It seems to be caused by an update of the snapd package. I created a new issue on Launchpad.

Possible workarounds:

• Use Bash as default shell. Configure your terminal emulator to use Fish.
• Remove snapd package
• Change your config.fish file to fix the XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable: https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/8741#issuecomment-1047820309