Comment 53 for bug 1770044

(In reply to Marcel Martin from comment #28)
> > Interesting, so you're saying that my boot problem was because
> > there were jobs in the print queue?
>
> To be precise: The problem occurs whenever there are at least two jobs in
> your print queue with identical job ids. This should normally not happen,
> but it apparently does sometimes.
>
> When Plasma starts up, it loads various apps, including the one responsible
> for the printer status icon in the system tray. When that one is loaded, it
> goes through the jobs in the print queue and tries to gather information
> about them. When it does so and encounters two jobs with the same id, it
> crashes, taking Plasma with it. At least that is my theory so far.
>
> Did you try 'cancel -a'? It would be interesting to know whether that fixes
> the problem.

Interesting!. The consequences are super nasty though. My KDE desktop wouldn't boot at all. No wallpaper, no menus, nothing. Obvious debugging or first counter-measures won't work either (such as wiping out ~/.config/).

I haven't tried cancel -a now since the first thing I went through is re-installing cups completely which fixed the problem. Not sure how to reproduce it now.

Still, I was seconds away of installing other distro or something... This one should get fixed. I didn't do any weird stuff just user my printer a few times last night (and it worked fine)