Ubuntu – the debug symbols for plasmashell (Kubuntu 19.04)

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I'm having an issue with plasmashell crashing anytime I leave the computer alone for more than an hour or two. I've tried installing debugging symbols to generate a useful crash report, but keep getting told I'm missing the symbols for '/usr/bin/plasmashell'. I installed the package 'plasma-workspace-dbgsym', so I'm curious why I still don't have the debug symbols and where to get them?

Operating System: Kubuntu 19.04
KDE Plasma Version: 5.15.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.56.0
Qt Version: 5.12.2
Kernel Version: 5.0.0-13-generic
OS Type: 64-bit
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Six-Core Processor
Memory: 15.7 GiB of RAM

I followed the directions here: https://wiki.kubuntu.org/DebuggingProgramCrash to manually install debug symbols for the various libraries the crash handler said I was missing, including 'plasma-workspace-dbgsym'. However, the crash handler still says I am missing symbols for '/usr/bin/plasmashell', even though dpkg -S '/usr/bin/plasmashell' shows that plasma-workspace is the package for plasmashell.

Output of apt-cache and apt show:

$ apt-cache policy plasma-workspace
plasma-workspace:
  Installed: 4:5.15.4-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 4:5.15.4-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 4:5.15.4-0ubuntu1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
$ apt show plasma-workspace-dbgsym
Package: plasma-workspace-dbgsym
Package-Type: ddeb
Version: 4:5.15.4-0ubuntu1
Auto-Built-Package: debug-symbols
Priority: optional
Section: debug
Source: plasma-workspace
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Debian/Kubuntu Qt/KDE Maintainers <debian-qt-kde@lists.debian.org>
Installed-Size: 83.6 MB
Depends: plasma-workspace (= 4:5.15.4-0ubuntu1)
Breaks: plasma-workspace-dbg (<= 4:5.5.5.1-1~~)
Replaces: plasma-workspace-dbg (<= 4:5.5.5.1-1~~)
Build-Ids: [I deleted the long hexadecimal list included here]
Download-Size: 80.0 MB
APT-Manual-Installed: yes
APT-Sources: http://ddebs.ubuntu.com disco/universe amd64 Packages
Description: debug symbols for plasma-workspace

The details from the crash handler (note the ?? for missing symbols): https://pastebin.com/9RB4ZDgZ.

If I click on the "list of files" link in the crash handler to see what packages need to be installed, only '/usr/bin/plasmashell' is now listed.

Best Answer

Well, apparently the missing debug symbols has been a confirmed bug for almost 2 years now (see bug #1701788). Would be nice if it could be fixed....

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